1853 in Belgium

Decades:	1830s; 1840s; 1850s; 1860s; 1870s;
See also:	Other events of 1853; List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1853 in Belgium.

Incumbents

9 April – Prince Leopold sworn in as a member of the Belgian Senate.
9 June – Aalst railway station opens.
22 August – Marriage of Leopold, Duke of Brabant, heir to the Belgian throne, and Marie Henriette of Austria.^[1]
23 August – International Maritime Conference opens in Brussels under the chairmanship of Adolphe Quetelet and at the instigation of Matthew Fontaine Maury (ends 8 September)^[2]
19 September – First International Statistical Congress opens in Brussels under the chairmanship of Adolphe Quetelet.

Victoria raspberry from Annales de pomologie belge et étrangère, vol. 1 (1853)

Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, H. Tarlier)^[3]
Annales de pomologie belge et étrangère (Commission Royale de Pomologie) begins publication.^[4]
Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique, vol. 5, edited by Isidore de Stein d'Altenstein^[5]
La Belgique Horticole, vol. 3.^[6]
Bulletins de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, vol. 20 (Brussels, M. Hayez)^[7]
Recueil des pièces imprimées par ordre de la Chambre des Représentants, vol. 3.^[8]

Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book for travellers in Belgium, on the Rhine, and through portions of Rhenish Prussia (London, W.J. Adams)^[9]
Francis Coghlan, The Miniature Guide to the Rhine through Belgium and Holland (London, J. Onwhyn)^[10]

^ Joseph Irving, The Annals of Our Time (London and New York, 1871), p. 389.
^ Maritime Conference held at Brussels for Devising a Uniform System of Meteorological Observations at Sea (n.p.d.). On Google Books.
^ Almanach royal on Google Books.
^ Vol. 1 on Wikisource (French).
^ Annuaire de la noblesse on Google Books.
^ Belgique Horticole on Google Books.
^ Bulletins de l'Académie on Google Books.
^ Recueil des pièces on Google Books.
^ Bradshaw on Google Books.
^ Miniature Guide on Google Books.