1832 in Belgium

Events in the year 1832 in Belgium.

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Decades:	1830s 1840s 1850s
See also:	Other events of 1832 List of years in Belgium

Incumbents

Monarch: Leopold I

Head of government: Félix de Muelenaere (to 20 October); Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella (from 20 October)

Events

Siege of Antwerp, 1832

• 8 April – Engelbert Sterckx consecrated as Archbishop of Mechelen
• 11 July
  • Order of Leopold established.
  • Provisional postal convention between Belgium and the Office of the Prince of Tour and Taxis signed in Frankfurt am Main.
• 9 August – Leopold I of Belgium marries Louise of Orléans.
• 20 October – Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella replaces Félix de Muelenaere as Prime Minister
• 15 November to 23 December – Siege of Antwerp: Belgian army with French support invests Antwerp Citadel, held by Dutch forces.
• 23 December – Siege of Antwerp concludes: Dutch forces removed from Antwerp Citadel.

Publications

• Almanach de poche de Bruxelles (Brussels, M.-E. Rampelbergh)
• Annuaire industriel et administratif de la Belgique par province: Province du Brabant (Brussels)

Art and architecture

Paintings

• Joseph De Cauwer, Prometheus Delivered by Hercules (now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent)

Births

• Date uncertain – Oswald Orth, philologist (died 1920)

• 2 February – Gédéon Bordiau, architect (died 1904)
• 8 March – William Henry James Weale, art historian (died 1917)
• 24 March – Edouard Osy de Zegwaart, politician (died 1900)
• 21 August – Charles-Joseph de Harlez de Deulin, Orientalist (died 1899)
• 11 November – Paul Goethals, Archbishop of Calcutta (died 1901)
• 10 December – Antoon Stillemans, bishop of Ghent (died 1916)
• 13 December – Polydore de Keyser, Lord Mayor of London (died 1898)

Deaths

William Cockerill

• Date uncertain – William Cockerill (born 1757/9), industrialist
• 16 December – Charles van Hulthem (born 1764), politician and bibliophile