1835 in Belgium

Events in the year 1835 in Belgium.

← 1834 1833 1832 1835 in Belgium → 1836 1837 1838
Decades:	1830s 1840s 1850s
See also:	Other events of 1835 List of years in Belgium

Incumbents

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

Events

Le Belge (built 1835)

• 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.

Art and architecture

Gustaaf Wappers, Episode of the Belgian Revolution of 1830 (1835)

Painting

• Gustaaf Wappers, Episode of the Belgian Revolution of 1830

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