1850 in Belgium
# 1850 in Belgium

Events in the year 1850 in Belgium.

## Incumbents

    Monarch: Leopold I
    Head of government: Charles Rogier

## Events

* Sint-Lodewijkscollege established in Lokeren
* 14 February – Treaty of commerce and navigation with the Russian Empire signed in Berlin.
* 5 May – National Bank of Belgium founded
* 27 May - Provincial elections
* 11 June – Partial legislative elections
* 25 July – Scourmont Priory established
* 4 August – Mediation by the King of the Belgians leads to the restoration of diplomatic relations between Spain and the United Kingdom.
* 25 September – King Leopold lays the first stone of the Congress Column in Brussels
* 31 October – Treaty of commerce and navigation with Bolivia signed in Brussels

## Publications

### Periodicals

* Almanach de poche de Bruxelles
* Almanach royal officiel
* Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique, edited by Isidore de Stein d'Altenstein (Brussels, Muquardt)
* Recueil des lois et arrêtés royaux de la Belgique, vol. 21 (Brussels, E. Devroye).
* Revue de Bruxelles ceases publication

### Books

* Félix Victor Goethals, Dictionnaire généalogique et héraldique des familles nobles du Royaume de Belgique, vol. 3.
* Adolphe Joanne, Voyage en Orient (Ixelles lez Bruxelles, Delevingne & Callewaert)
* Edouard Mary, Epîtres en vers sur la Belgique.
* Jean-Joseph Thonissen, Le Socialisme et ses promesses (2 volumes)
* Pierre-Joseph van Beneden, Recherches sur la faune littorale de Belgique: Les vers cestoïdes ou acotyles (Brussels, Hayez)

## Art and architecture

### Paintings

* Jan August Hendrik Leys, Divine Service in Holland

## Births

* 5 January – Theodoor Verstraete, artist (died 1907)
* 30 January – Emma De Vigne, painter (died 1898)
* 20 February – Eugène Joors, painter (died 1910)
* 20 March – Marietta Hannon Rousseau, mycologist (died 1926)
* 14 April – Fredegand Cogels, politician (died 1932)
* 9 May – Fernande de Mertens, painter (died 1924)
* 8 October – Léon Herbo, painter (died 1907)
* 4 November – Jules Bilmeyer, architect (died 1920)
* 17 November – Hippolyte d'Ursel, politician and historian (died 1937)
* 29 December – Frans Van Leemputten, painter (died 1914)

## Deaths

* 29 April – Charles de Brouckère (born 1757), politician
* 5 September – Paul-François Huart-Chapel (born 1770), industrialist and politician
* 11 October – Queen Louise (born 1812)
