1836 in Belgium

← 1835 1834 1833 1836 in Belgium → 1837 1838 1839
Decades:	1830s 1840s 1850s
See also:	Other events of 1836 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1836 in Belgium.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Leopold I
• Prime Minister: Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt^[1]

Events

• 15 March – Annual general meeting of the Banque de Belgique, founded the previous year.^[2]
• 30 March – Law on municipalities of Belgium passed: mayors and aldermen to be appointed by the crown from among those elected to the local council; crown cannot disband local councils.^[3]: 627
• 30 April – Law on provinces of Belgium passes: provincial governors appointed by the crown; crown cannot disband provincial councils.^[3]: 627
• 2 May – Parliament empowers government to raise 6 million francs for road-building.^[3]: 627
• 27 May – Postal convention with the Kingdom of France signed in Brussels (to enter into force 29 June).^[4]
• 18 June – Belgium adopts metric system.^[3]: 627
• 29 September - Provincial elections
• 31 October – Provincial Council of Hainaut approves the foundation of the École des Mines de Mons.
• 4 November – Jan Frans Willems and Jean-Baptist David found Flemish literary society Maetschappij tot Bevordering der Vlaemsche Tael en Letterkunde.^[3]: 627

Publications

Periodicals

• Almanach de poche de Bruxelles (Brussels, M.-E. Rampelbergh)^[5]
• Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, vol. 3 (Brussels, M. Hayez)^[6]
• Journal historique et littéraire, vol. 3 (Liège, P. Kersten).^[7]
• Messager des sciences et des arts, vol. 4 (Ghent, Léonard Hebbelynck)^[8]

Monographs and reports

• Pasinomie: collection complète des lois, décrets, arrêtés et réglements généraux qui peuvent être invoqués en Belgique^[9]
• L. Alvin, Compte-rendu du salon d'exposition de Bruxelles, 1836 (Brussels, J. P. Meline)^[10]
• Charles de Brouckère and F. Tielemans, Répertoire de l'administration et du droit administratif de la Belgique, Vol. 3 (Brussels, Weissenbruch)^[11]
• Zoé de Gamond, Des devoirs des femmes et des moyens les plus propres d'assurer leur bonheur (Brussels, L. Hauman)^[12]
• Joseph Jean De Smet, Coup-d'oeil sur l'histoire ecclésiastique dans les premières années du XIXe siècle (Ghent)^[13]
• Guillaume Tell Poussin, Chemins de fer américains (Brussels, Th. Lejeune)^[14]

Art and architecture

Paintings

• Antoine Wiertz, The Greeks and the Trojans Fighting over the Body of Patroclus

Buildings

• Auguste Payen, Porte de Namur tollbooths, Brussels

Births

• 3 March – Léonie de Waha, feminist (died 1926)
• 29 March – Léon d'Andrimont, politician (died 1905)
• 17 May – Virginie Loveling, author and poet (died 1923)^[15]
• 9 June – Guillaume Vogels, painter (died 1896)
• 12 June – Bernardine Hamaekers, soprano (died 1912)
• 9 July – Camille of Renesse-Breidbach, entrepreneur (died 1904)
• 23 August – Marie Henriette of Austria, Queen of the Belgians (died 1902)
• 10 November – Julius Vuylsteke, poet-politician (died 1903)
• 15 December – Edmond Picard, jurist (died 1924)

Deaths

• 27 October – Joséphine-Rosalie de Walckiers (born 1765), composer
• 7 November – Philippe-Charles Schmerling (born 1791), palaeontologist

References

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