1835 in Belgium
# 1835 in Belgium

Events in the year 1835 in Belgium.

## Incumbents

* Monarch: Leopold I
* Prime Minister: Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt

## Events

* 12 February – Court of Cassation finds that the laws on injury and manslaughter apply to participants in duels.
* 5 May – First Belgian railway line, between Brussels and Mechelen, taken into service, with three locomotives: Flèche, Eléphant, and Stephenson.
* 10 May – Gaspard-Joseph Labis becomes bishop of Tournai.
* 9 June – 1835 Belgian general election
* 8 August – Brussels Coin Cabinet opens
* 15 September – Exposition des produits de l'industrie nationale opens in Brussels.
* 10 October – Second provisional postal convention between Belgium and the Office of the Prince of Tour and Taxis signed in Brussels.
* 1 December – Catholic University of Mechelen relocates to Leuven, becoming Catholic University of Leuven.

## Publications

### Periodicals

* Almanach administratif et industriel de Bruxelles (Brussels, Ad. Wahlen)
* Almanach de poche de Bruxelles (Brussels, M.-E. Rampelbergh)
* Annuaire de l'Académie royale de Belgique (Brussels, M. Hayez).
* Bulletin médical Belge.
* Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences et belles-lettres, Volume 2 (Brussels, M. Hayez).
* Le cultivateur, journal belge d'économie rurale.
* Messager des sciences et des arts de la Belgique, vol. 3 (Ghent, D. Duvivier).
* Revue Belge (Liége, Jeunehomme frères).

### Monographs and reports

* Pasinomie: collection complète des lois, décrets, arrêtés et réglements généraux qui peuvent être invoqués en Belgique.
* De l'industrie et du commerce en Belgique (Brussels, H. Remy).
* Édouard Ducpétiaux, Statistique comparée de la criminalité en France, en Belgique, en Angleterre et en Allemagne (Brussels, L. Hauman).
* Louis Prosper Gachard (ed.), Collection de documents inédits concernant l'histoire de la Belgique, vol. 3 (Brussels, Louis Hauman).
* Jean-Baptiste Van Mons, Arbres fruitiers: leur culture en Belqique (Leuven, L. Dusart and H. Vandenbroeck).

### Fiction

* Jules de Saint-Genois, Hembyse

### Guide books

* A. X. Mauvy, The Stranger's Guide through Brussels and its Environs (Brussels, Adolphus Wahlen)
* The Traveller's Guide Through Belgium (Brussels, Adolphus Wahlen)

## Births

* 21 January – Charles du Bois de Vroylande, politician (died 1888)
* 2 February – Stanislas Bormans, archivist (died 1912)
* 9 April – Leopold II of Belgium (died 1909)
* 23 August – Jules Bara, politician (died 1900)
* 28 September – Jean Louis Gobbaerts, composer (died 1886)
* 20 October – Emile De Mot, mayor of Brussels (died 1909)
* 4 November – Amedée Visart de Bocarmé, mayor of Bruges (died 1924)

## Deaths

* 24 February – Gilles-Lambert Godecharle (born 1750), sculptor
* 3 June – Andreas Bernardus de Quertenmont (born 1750), artist
