1838 in Belgium

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Decades:	1830s 1840s 1850s
See also:	Other events of 1838 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1838 in Belgium.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Leopold I
• Prime Minister: Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt

Events

• 7 April – Tariffs raised on woollen cloth, porcelain, glass, crystal and chemical products.
• 15 May – Court of assizes to have jury verdicts.
• 1 June – Parliament approves government loan of 2 million Belgian francs for building highways and railways.
• June – Ghent linen factories begin mechanising.
• 1 August – Westmalle Brewery begins operations
• 24 September – Monument to the fallen of the Belgian Revolution inaugurated on Place des Martyrs, Brussels.
• 3 September – Insurance scheme established for railway workers.
• 17 December – Run on the Banque de Belgique.
• 23 December – Declarations on postal reciprocity between Belgium and the Office of the Prince of Tour and Taxis signed in Frankfurt am Main.

Publications

Periodicals

• Almanach royal et du commerce de Belgique (Brussels, Balleroy)
• Annuaire du clergé catholique du royaume de Belgique (Brussels, L. Schapen)
• Journal historique et littéraire, vol. 5 (Liège, P. Kersten).
• Messager des sciences et des arts de la Belgique, vol. 6 (Ghent, Léonard Hebbelynck)
• Revue de Bruxelles, 2.

Official publications

• Documents statistiques sur le Royaume de Belgique: recueillis et publiés par le Ministre de l'Intérieur (Brussels, Ch.-J. de Mat)

Guidebooks and directories

• Alexandre Ferrier de Tourettes, Guide pittoresque et artistique du voyageur en Belgique (Brussels, Société Belge de Librairie)

Fiction

• Hendrik Conscience, De Leeuw van Vlaenderen (Antwerp, L.J. de Cort).

Art and architecture

Guillaume Geefs, Pro Patria, Place des Martyrs, Brussels (1838)

Sculptures

• Guillaume Geefs, Pro Patria, Place des Martyrs, Brussels

Births

• 3 January – Joseph Dupont, violinst (died 1899)
• 18 March – Jan Stobbaerts, painter (died 1914)
• 14 April – Charles Moeller, historian (died 1922)
• 16 April – Ernest Solvay, industrial chemist (died 1922)
• 23 April – Alfred Verwee, painter (died 1895)
• 7 September – Louis Delacenserie, architect (died 1909)
• 6 October – Henry Gabriels, bishop (died 1921)
• 15 October – August Vandekerkhove, writer and painter (died 1923)
• 30 October – Lodewijk de Koninck, writer (died 1924)

Deaths

• 9 February – Françoise Blin de Bourdon (born 1756), religious leader
• 3 August – Nicolas-Jean Rouppe (born 1769), mayor of Brussels
• 7 August – Jean-François van de Velde (born 1779), bishop of Ghent