1846 in Belgium

Events in the year 1846 in Belgium.

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Decades:	1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s
See also:	Other events of 1846 List of years in Belgium

Incumbents

Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt, Prime Minister 1834-1840, 1846-1847, 1871-1874

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

Events

Liberal Congress, 14 June 1846

• 21 March – Achel Priory founded as a filiation from Westmalle Abbey.
• 25 May – Provincial elections
• 14 June – Founding congress of the Liberal Party.^[1]
• 29 July – Commercial treaty with the Netherlands.^[2]

Art and architecture

Buildings

• 6 May — Work begins on Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert, designed by Jean-Pierre Cluysenaar

Publications

Periodicals

• Annales parlementaires de Belgique.^[3]
• Messager des sciences historiques (Ghent, Léonard Hebbelynck).^[4]
• La renaissance: Chronique des arts et de la littérature, 7.^[5]
• Revue de Belgique begins publication^[6]
• Revue de Bruxelles reverts to its original title.^[7]

Monographs and reports

• Rapport triennial sur la situation de l'instruction primaire en Belgique (Brussels, 1846)^[8]

Guidebooks and directories

• A. Hochsteyn, Dictionnaire-postal de la Belgique, 2 vols.^[9]
• A Week in Brussels: The Stranger's Guide to the Capital of Belgium, 3rd edition (London, Edwards and Hughes; Brussels, Edward Browne)^[10]

Literature

• Karel Lodewijk Ledeganck, Drie Zustersteden.^[11]
• Jules de Saint-Genois, Le château de Wildenborg, ou les mutinés du siége d'Ostende (1604) (2 vols., Brussels, A. van Dale).^[12]

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