1849 in Belgium

Events in the year 1849 in Belgium.

← 1848 1847 1846 1849 in Belgium → 1850 1851 1852
Decades:	1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s
See also:	Other events of 1849 List of years in Belgium

Incumbents

Monarch: Leopold I

Head of government: Charles Rogier

Events

10-cent Belgian postage stamp (1849)

• 24-26 March – Rio Nuñez incident off the West African coast
• 1 May – Jean-Baptiste Malou consecrated as bishop of Bruges
• 1 July – First Belgian postage stamp issued.
• 28 August – Grand Steeple-Chase des Flandres first held

Publications

Periodicals

• Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique, 3.
• Bulletin de l'Académie Royale de Médecine de Belgique, 9.
• Bulletins de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 16 (Brussels, M. Hayez).

Books

• Félix Victor Goethals, Dictionnaire généalogique et héraldique des familles nobles du Royaume de Belgique.

Art and architecture

Buildings

• Saint Joseph's Church, Brussels

Paintings

Jacob Jacobs, Merchant Vessels off the Turkish Coast (1849)

• Louis Gallait, Art and Liberty
• Jacob Jacobs, Merchant Vessels off the Turkish Coast

Births

• 25 March – Henri Van Dyck, painter (died 1934)
• 24 May – Albert Lancaster, meteorologist (died 1908)
• 31 May – Aymard d'Ursel, papal courtier (died 1939)
• 8 June – Julien Dillens, sculptor (died 1904)
• 10 June – Félix de Hemptinne, abbot (died 1913)
• 27 September – Emile Claus, painter (died 1924)
• 8 October – Alfred Verhaeren, painter (died 1924)
• 28 November – Albert Thys, businessman (died 1915)
• 2 December – Émile Braun, engineer (died 1927)
• 20 December – Philippe Dautzenberg, biologist (died 1935)

Deaths

• 15 February – Pierre François Verhulst (born 1804), mathematician
• 7 May – Theodoor van Rijswijck (born 1811), writer
• 31 May – Leonard du Bus de Gisignies (born 1770), soldier and politician
• 27 August – Dominic Barberi (born), religious
• 16 December – Maria Jacoba Ommeganck (born 1760), painter