1841 in Belgium
# 1841 in Belgium

Events in the year 1841 in Belgium.

## Incumbents

* Monarch: Leopold I
* Prime Minister: Joseph Lebeau (to 13 April); Jean-Baptiste Nothomb (from 13 April)

## Events

* 13 April – Nothomb ministry comes to power.
* 8 June – Parliamentary elections.
* 15 July – Exposition des Produits le l'Industrie Nationale opens in Brussels.
* 19 September – Founding of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium.

## Publications

### Periodicals

* Almanach de la cour
* Almanach royal de Belgique (Brussels, Librairie Polytechnique)
* Annuaire de l'Académie royale des sciences et belles-letres de Bruxelles
* Annuaire dramatique de la Belgique
* Bulletins de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique
* Journal de Bruxelles begins publication.
* Messager des sciences historiques
* La renaissance: Chronique des arts et de la littérature, 2.
* Revue belge, vol. 17 (Liège, A. Jeunehomme)
* Revue de Bruxelles

### Monographs and reports

* Joseph Jean De Smet (ed.), Recueil des chroniques de Flandre, vol. 2 (Brussels, Commission royale d'Histoire)
* Xavier Heuschling, Essai sur la statistique générale de la Belgique, 2nd edition (Brussels, Etablissement Géographique)
* François Joseph Ferdinand Marchal, Histoire des Pays-Bas autrichiens (Brussels, Deprez-Parent)
* M. E. Perrot, Revue de l'exposition des produits le l'industrie nationale en 1841 (Brussels)

### Guide books

* A. Ferrier, Guide pittoresque du voyageur en Belgique (3rd edition, Brussels, Société Belge de Librairie)

## Art and architecture

### Paintings

* Louis Gallait, The Abdication of Charles V
* Antoine Wiertz, La Chute des Anges rebelles

### Buildings

* Jean Baptiste De Baets, St. Stefanus, Ghent
* Greenhouses of the Botanical Garden of Liège

## Births

* 25 January – Cornelius Van Leemputten, painter (died 1902)
* 12 July – César De Paepe, syndicalist (died 1890)
* 12 August – Leon Van Loo, photographer (died 1907)
* 20 November – Victor D'Hondt, lawyer (died 1902)
* 6 December – Aimé Dupont, photographer (died 1900)

## Deaths

* 23 March – Jean-Baptiste Thorn (born 1783), politician
* 10 April – Henri Van Assche (born 1774), painter
* 28 April – Henri-Joseph van den Corput (born 1790), pharmacist
* 20 August – Constantinus Fidelio Coene (born 1780), painter
