1858 in Belgium
# 1858 in Belgium

Events in the year 1858 in Belgium.

## Incumbents

    Monarch: Leopold I
    Head of government: Charles Rogier

## Events

* 24 May – Provincial elections
* 17 July – New commercial treaty agreed with the United States.
* 2 August – Bourse of Antwerp burns down.
* September – International congress on intellectual property held in Brussels.

## Publications

### Periodicals

* Almanach de poche de Bruxelles (Brussels, Tircher)
* Annales de pomologie belge et étrangère, vol. 6.
* Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique, vol. 12, edited by Isidore de Stein d'Altenstein
* Annuaire statistique et historique belge, vol. 5, edited by Auguste Scheler
* Annuaire de l'Académie royale de Belgique, vol. 24
* La Belgique, 5
* La Belgique Horticole, vol. 8.
* Bulletin et annales de l'Académie d'archéologie de Belgique, vol. 5
* Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences et belles-lettres de Bruxelles, vol. 5 (Brussels, Hayez).
* Collection de précis historiques, vol. 7, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J.
* Journal de l'armée belge, vol. 15
* Journal d'horticulture pratique de la Belgique

### Official reports and monographs

* Recueil consulaire contenant les rapports commerciaux
* Recueil des lois et arrêtés royaux de la Belgique, vol. 10

### Other works

* C. H. Barlet, Géographie industrielle et commerciale de la Belgique (Mechelen, E.-F. van Velsen)
* Hendrik Conscience, De omwenteling van 1830 (Antwerp, J. P. van Dieren)
* Alexandre Henne, Histoire du règne de Charles-Quint en Belgique (Brussels and Leipzig, Émile Flatau)
* Jan van Ruusbroec, Dat Boec van den gheesteleken Tabernacule, edited by Jean-Baptist David, 2 volumes (Ghent, Maetschappy der Vlaemsche Bibliophilen).
* Jean-Joseph Thonissen, La Belgique sous le règne de Léopold I, vol. 4 (Liège, J.-G. Lardinois)
* Alphonse Wauters, Bruxelles et ses faubourgs: guide de l'étranger (Brussels, C. W. Froment)

## Births

* 8 April – Eugène van Rechem, bishop (died 1943)
* 16 April – Philippe Wolfers, jeweller (died 1929)
* 7 May – Charles Liebrechts, explorer (died 1938)
* 21 June – Léon Roget, colonial officer (died 1909)
* 12 September – Fernand Khnopff, painter (died 1921)
* 19 October – George Albert Boulenger, zoologist (died 1937)
* 4 November – Jacques de Lalaing, artist (died 1917)

## Deaths

* 22 February – Noël Delfosse (born 1801), politician
* 14 March – Henri Guillaume Galeotti (born 1814), botanist and geologist
* 22 April – François Joseph Ferdinand Marchal (born 1780), archivist
* 29 April – Charles d'Hane de Steenhuyze (born 1787), politician
* 15 May – Jacques Coghen (born 1791), politician
* 27 June – Coralie van den Cruyce (born 1796), writer
