1831 in Belgium
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Events in the year 1831 in Belgium.
Incumbents
- Monarch – Leopold I (from 21 July)
- Head of government – Etienne Constantin de Gerlache (27 February–10 March), Joseph Lebeau (10 March–24 July), Félix de Muelenaere (from 24 July)
Events
- February
- 3 February – Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours, elected king of the Belgians but declined the honour.[1]
- 5 February – Jan van Speyk explodes his gunboat in the port of Antwerp
- 7 February – National Congress approves the Constitution of Belgium
- 27 February – Etienne Constantin de Gerlache takes office as head of government
- March
- 10 March – Joseph Lebeau replaces Etienne Constantin de Gerlache as head of government
- June
- 26 June – At the Conference of London the five great powers (Austria, Britain, France, Prussia, Russia) finalise the Treaty of the Eighteen Articles, an unsuccessful peace proposal for Belgium and the Netherlands
- July
- 12 July – Leopold, Prince of Coburg, elected king of the Belgians.[1]
- 19 July – Leopold arrives in Brussels.[1]
- 21 July – Leopold sworn in as king of the Belgians.[1]
- 24 July – Félix de Muelenaere replaces Joseph Lebeau as head of government
- August
- 2–12 August – Ten Days' Campaign – Dutch attempt to re-establish rule over Belgium fails, but Dutch forces retain control of Antwerp Citadel.
- 8 August – Battle of Hasselt
- 12 August – Battle of Leuven
- 29 August – Belgian general election, 1831, first elections for the Belgian Parliament
Publications
- Almanach de poche de Bruxelles (Brussels, M.-E. Rampelbergh)[2]
- Joseph Jean De Smet, Nouvelle géographie, second edition (Ghent, Vanryckgem-Hovaere)[3]
- Auguste Voisin, Guide des voyageurs dans la ville de Gand, ou Notice historique sur cette ville, ses monumens, ses institutions, sa statistique, etc. (Ghent, Louis De Busscher)[4]
Births
- 11 April – Euphrosine Beernaert, landscape painter (died 1901)
- 12 April – Constantin Meunier, painter and sculptor (died 1905)
- 25 April – Edmond Reusens, archaeologist (died 1903)
- 8 July – Antoine-Félix Bouré, monumental sculptor (died 1883)
- 29 July – Léopold Harzé, sculptor (died 1893)
- 26 September – François-Joseph Scohy, archaeologist (died 1881)
- 30 September – Joseph Delboeuf, psychologist (died 1896)
Deaths
- 15 January – François de Méan (born 1756), archbishop of Mechelen
- 27 March – Jean Kickx (born 1775), botanist and mineralogist
- 5 April – Pierre Léonard Vander Linden (born 1797), entomologist
- 21 November – Marie Anne Simonis (born 1758), industrialist
References
- ^ a b c d William Henry Overall, The dictionary of chronology, or historical and statistical register (London, 1870), p. 76.
- ^ On Google Books
- ^ vol. 1 and vol. 2 on Google Books
- ^ https://books.google.com/books?id=zIRNAAAAcAAJ
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