1846 in Belgium

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Events in the year 1846 in Belgium.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Leopold I
• Prime Minister: Sylvain Van de Weyer (to 31 March); Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt (from 31 March)

Events

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Liberal Congress, 14 June 1846

• 21 March – Achel Priory founded as a filiation from Westmalle Abbey.
• 14 June – Founding congress of the Liberal Party.

Publications

Periodicals

• Messager des sciences historiques (Ghent, Léonard Hebbelynck).

Reference

• A. Hochsteyn, Dictionnaire-postal de la Belgique, vol. 1, vol. 2.

Births

• 24 January – Isidore Verheyden, painter (died 1905)
• 28 February – Jean de la Hoese, painter (died 1917)
• 5 March – Edouard Van Beneden, biologist (died 1910)
• 27 April – Charles Joseph Van Depoele, electrical engineer (died 1892)
• 2 June – Émile Storms, soldier (died 1918)
• 9 August – François J. Terby, astronomer (died 1911)
• 10 August
  • Eugène Goblet d'Alviella, politician (died 1925)
  • Leon Van der Rest, banker (died 1932)
• 16 September – Marie Popelin, feminist (died 1913)
• 19 November – Emile Wauters, painter (died 1933)

Deaths

• 24 June – Jan Frans Willems (born 1793), writer
• 1 July – Auguste Duvivier (born 1772), politician
• 8 October – Henri van der Haert (born 1790), painter
• 29 October – Jean-Louis van Aelbroeck (born 1755), agronomist