1852 in Belgium
# 1852 in Belgium

Events in the year 1852 in Belgium.

## Incumbents

    Monarch: Leopold I
    Head of government: Charles Rogier (to 31 October); Henri de Brouckère (from 31 October)

## Events

* 12 February – State visit of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert to Belgium.
* 15 April – Postal convention between Belgium and the Office of the Prince of Tour and Taxis signed in Brussels.
* 24 May – Provincial elections
* 8 June – Partial legislative elections of 1852.
* 22 August – Franco-Belgian conventions on intellectual property and tariffs.
* 31 October – Henri de Brouckère replaces Charles Rogier as Prime Minister.
* 7 November – Théodore de Montpellier consecrated as bishop of Liège in succession to Cornelius van Bommel.

## Publications

### Periodicals

* Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, Librairie Polytechnique)
* La Belgique Horticole, vol. 2.

### Guidebooks and directories

* Belgium and the Rhine (London, David Bogue).
* Guide pittoresque du voyageur en Belgique: Itinéraire artistique, industriel et manufacturier (Guide Richard, 7th edition; Paris, L. Maison)
* Murray's Handbook for Belgium and the Rhine (London, John Murray)

### Other

* Collection des discours prononcés aux distributions de prix des athénées royaux (Tournai, Bureau du Moniteur de l'Enseignement)
* Henri Alexis Brialmont, Considérations politiques et militaires sur la Belgique, vol. 3 (Brussels, M. Hayez)
* Jules de Saint-Genois, Feuillets détachés

## Art and architecture

### Paintings

* Louis Gallait, Gypsy Woman with Two Children

## Births

* 24 January – Alexander Struys, painter (died 1941)
* 7 March – Constant de Deken, missionary (died 1896)
* 25 March – Gérard Cooreman, politician (died 1926)
* 27 March – Jan van Beers, artist (died 1927)
* 10 April – Arthur Vierendeel, engineer (died 1940)
* 21 April – Edward Maene, sculptor (died 1931)
* 9 June – Frans Van Kuyck, artist (died 1915)
* 12 July – Henry Moeller, review editor (died 1918)
* 31 August – Joris Helleputte, architect and politician (died 1925)
* 20 September – Édouard Empain, engineer-entrepreneur (died 1929)
* 2 December – Lucien Bia, soldier (died 1892)

## Deaths

* 28 January – Augustin Dumon-Dumortier (born 1791), industrialist and politician
* 7 April – Cornelius van Bommel (born 1790), bishop of Liège
* 6 May – Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens (born 1777), theatre director
* 17 October – Henri Decaisne (born 1799), painter
