1847 in Belgium
# 1847 in Belgium

Events in the year 1847 in Belgium.

## Incumbents

* Monarch: Leopold I
* Prime Minister: Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt (to 12 August); Charles Rogier (from 12 August)

## Events

* 7 June – Théâtre des Galeries opens in Brussels.
* 8 June – Partial legislative elections.
* 20 June – Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert shopping arcade opened in Brussels.
* 1 July – Opening of the public exhibition of the products of national industry in Brussels.
* 9 August – Antwerp–Ghent railway line completed.
* 27 September – Premonstratensians return to Postel Abbey.

## Publications

### Periodicals

* Annales parlementaires de Belgique
* Bulletins de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique (Brussels, M. Hayez), vol. 14.
* Messager des sciences historiques (Ghent, Léonard Hebbelynck).
* Revue de Bruxelles

### Exhibitions

* J.B.A.M. Jobard, Exposition de l'industrie Belge 1847
* Catalogue des produits de l'industrie belge admis à l'exposition de 1847

### Scholarship

* André Dumont, Mémoire sur les terrains Ardennais et Rhénan de l'Ardenne, du Rhin, du Brabant et du Condros (Brussels, Hayez)
* Émile Louis Victor de Laveleye, L'Histoire des rois francs

### Literature

* Tegenwoordig België (Liberalen, Katholyken en Vlaemsche-beweging) door Een' Noord-Nederlander beoordeeld (Ghent, Snoeck-Ducaju en zoon); reprinted from De Gids.
* Hippoliet Van Peene, "De Vlaamse Leeuw", song set to music by Karel Miry
* Hippoliet Van Peene, Willem van Dampierre, historical drama

## Art and architecture

### Buildings

* Jean-Pierre Cluysenaar's Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert completed

### Paintings

* Antoine Wiertz, La Belle Rosine

## Births

* 9 March – Martin Pierre Marsick, composer (died 1924)
* 9 April – Léon Mignon, sculptor (died 1898)
* 11 May – Godefroid Kurth, historian (died 1916)
* 27 August – Édouard Descamps, jurist and politician (died 1933)
* 31 August – Arthur Verhaegen, architect and politician (died 1917)
* 3 October – Frantz Jourdain, architect (died 1935)

## Deaths

* 19 March – Karel Lodewijk Ledeganck (born 1805), writer
* 4 April – Julie du Bosch (born 1797), social reformer
