1797 in Belgium
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Events in the year 1797 in the Belgian Departments of France. The French First Republic had annexed the Austrian Netherlands and Prince-bishopric of Liège (predecessor states of modern Belgium) in 1795 and had reorganised the territory as the nine departments Dyle, Escaut, Forêts, Jemmape, Lys, Meuse-Inférieure, Deux-Nèthes, Ourthe, and Sambre-et-Meuse.[1]
The year 1797 corresponds to the period from 12 Nivôse of Year V to 11 Nivôse of Year VI in the French Republican Calendar.
Incumbents
- Directors
- Paul Barras
- Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux
- Jean-François Rewbell
- Étienne-François Letourneur (to 26 May), François-Marie de Barthélemy (from 26 May to 5 September), Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai (from 5 September)
- Lazare Carnot (to 5 September), François de Neufchâteau (from 5 September)
Events
- February
- 16 February – Abbey of St. Peter in Oudenburg sold at auction.
- April
- 28 April – auction of Dominican convent and church in Antwerp begins; buildings bought by Prior Cornelius Peltiers.[2]
- October
- 18 October – By the Treaty of Campo Formio the Austrian monarchy accepts the French annexation of the former Austrian Netherlands.[3]
- 25 October – University of Leuven suppressed by decree.[4]
- November
- 20 November – French authorities begin compiling lists of priests in Belgium
- 25 November – Law of 5 Frimaire confiscates property of all religious colleges, seminaries and confraternities (implementation started 31 December).[4]
Births
- 2 February – Joseph Guislain, physician (died 1860)
- 17 September – Eugène-Henri Defacqz, magistrate (died 1871)[5]
- 21 October – Charles Moerman d'Harlebeke, senator (died 1854)[6]
Deaths
- 4 May – Jan-Baptist Verlooy (born 1746), revolutionary
- 17 May – Johannes Joseph Beerenbroek (born 1717), industrialist[7]
References
- ^ Charles Oudiette, Dictionnaire géographique et topographique des treize départemens de la Belgique et de la rive gauche du Rhin (Paris, Cramer, 1804). On Google Books.
- ^ NBW IV, 656
- ^ s.v. "Austrian Netherlands", Wiley-Blackwell Dictionary of Modern European History since 1789, edited by Nicholas Atkin, Michael Biddiss, Frank Tallett (Oxford, 2011).
- ^ a b Jan Roegiers, "Revolutie in de seminaries", Trajecta 9 (2000), 112-133.
- ^ NBW VI, 215
- ^ NBW II, 557
- ^ NBW II, 44