1832 in Belgium
# 1832 in Belgium

Events in the year 1832 in Belgium.

## Incumbents

    Monarch: Leopold I
    Head of government: Félix de Muelenaere (to 20 October); Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella (from 20 October)

## Events

* 8 April – Engelbert Sterckx consecrated as Archbishop of Mechelen
* 11 July
   * Order of Leopold established.
   * Provisional postal convention between Belgium and the Office of the Prince of Tour and Taxis signed in Frankfurt am Main.
* 9 August – Leopold I of Belgium marries Louise of Orléans.
* 20 October – Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella replaces Félix de Muelenaere as Prime Minister
* 15 November to 23 December – Siege of Antwerp: Belgian army with French support invests Antwerp Citadel, held by Dutch forces.
* 23 December – Siege of Antwerp concludes: Dutch forces removed from Antwerp Citadel.

## Publications

* Almanach de poche de Bruxelles (Brussels, M.-E. Rampelbergh)
* Annuaire industriel et administratif de la Belgique par province: Province du Brabant (Brussels)

## Art and architecture

### Paintings

* Joseph De Cauwer, Prometheus Delivered by Hercules (now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent)

## Births

* Date uncertain – Oswald Orth, philologist (died 1920)
* 2 February – Gédéon Bordiau, architect (died 1904)
* 8 March – William Henry James Weale, art historian (died 1917)
* 24 March – Edouard Osy de Zegwaart, politician (died 1900)
* 21 August – Charles-Joseph de Harlez de Deulin, Orientalist (died 1899)
* 11 November – Paul Goethals, Archbishop of Calcutta (died 1901)
* 10 December – Antoon Stillemans, bishop of Ghent (died 1916)
* 13 December – Polydore de Keyser, Lord Mayor of London (died 1898)

## Deaths

* Date uncertain – William Cockerill (born 1757/9), industrialist
* 16 December – Charles van Hulthem (born 1764), politician and bibliophile
