• Source: 1849 in Belgium

      • Events in the year 1849 in Belgium.


      Incumbents


      Monarch: Leopold I
      Head of government: Charles Rogier


      Events



      24-26 March – Rio Nuñez incident off the West African coast
      1 May – Jean-Baptiste Malou consecrated as bishop of Bruges
      1 July – First Belgian postage stamp issued.
      28 August – Grand Steeple-Chase des Flandres first held


      Publications


      Periodicals
      Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique, 3.
      Bulletin de l'Académie Royale de Médecine de Belgique, 9.
      Bulletins de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 16 (Brussels, M. Hayez).
      Books
      Félix Victor Goethals, Dictionnaire généalogique et héraldique des familles nobles du Royaume de Belgique.


      Art and architecture


      Buildings
      Saint Joseph's Church, Brussels
      Paintings

      Louis Gallait, Art and Liberty
      Jacob Jacobs, Merchant Vessels off the Turkish Coast


      Births


      25 March – Henri Van Dyck, painter (died 1934)
      24 May – Albert Lancaster, meteorologist (died 1908)
      31 May – Aymard d'Ursel, papal courtier (died 1939)
      8 June – Julien Dillens, sculptor (died 1904)
      10 June – Félix de Hemptinne, abbot (died 1913)
      27 September – Emile Claus, painter (died 1924)
      8 October – Alfred Verhaeren, painter (died 1924)
      28 November – Albert Thys, businessman (died 1915)
      2 December – Émile Braun, engineer (died 1927)
      20 December – Philippe Dautzenberg, biologist (died 1935)


      Deaths


      15 February – Pierre François Verhulst (born 1804), mathematician
      7 May – Theodoor van Rijswijck (born 1811), writer
      31 May – Leonard du Bus de Gisignies (born 1770), soldier and politician
      27 August – Dominic Barberi (born), religious
      16 December – Maria Jacoba Ommeganck (born 1760), painter


      References

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