1846 in Belgium
# 1846 in Belgium

Events in the year 1846 in Belgium.

## Incumbents

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

## Events

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

## Art and architecture

### Buildings

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

## Publications

### Periodicals

* Annales parlementaires de Belgique.
* Messager des sciences historiques (Ghent, Léonard Hebbelynck).
* La renaissance: Chronique des arts et de la littérature, 7.
* Revue de Belgique begins publication
* Revue de Bruxelles reverts to its original title.

### Monographs and reports

* Rapport triennial sur la situation de l'instruction primaire en Belgique (Brussels, 1846)

### Guidebooks and directories

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

### Literature

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

## 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
