1831 in Belgium

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Events in the year 1831 in Belgium.

## Incumbents

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Gustave Wappers, The Swearing in of Leopold I

Monarch – Leopold I (from 21 July)
Head of government – Etienne Constantin de Gerlache (27 February–10 March), Joseph Lebeau (10 March–24 July), Félix de Muelenaere (from 24 July)

## Events

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February

* 3 February – Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours, elected king of the Belgians but declined the honour.[1]
* 5 February – Jan van Speyk explodes his gunboat in the port of Antwerp
* 7 February – National Congress approves the Constitution of Belgium
* 27 February – Etienne Constantin de Gerlache takes office as head of government

March

* 10 March – Joseph Lebeau replaces Etienne Constantin de Gerlache as head of government

June

* 26 June – At the Conference of London the five great powers (Austria, Britain, France, Prussia, Russia) finalise the Treaty of the Eighteen Articles, an unsuccessful peace proposal for Belgium and the Netherlands

July

* 12 July – Leopold, Prince of Coburg, elected king of the Belgians.[1]
* 19 July – Leopold arrives in Brussels.[1]
* 21 July – Leopold sworn in as King of the Belgians.[1]
* 24 July – Félix de Muelenaere replaces Joseph Lebeau as head of government

August

* 2–12 August – Ten Days' Campaign – Dutch attempt to re-establish rule over Belgium fails, but Dutch forces retain control of Antwerp Citadel.
* 8 August – Battle of Hasselt
* 12 August – Battle of Leuven
* 29 August – Belgian general election, 1831, first elections for the Belgian Parliament

## Publications

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* Almanach de poche de Bruxelles (Brussels, M.-E. Rampelbergh)[2]
* Joseph Jean De Smet, Nouvelle géographie, second edition (Ghent, Vanryckgem-Hovaere)[3]
* Auguste Voisin, Guide des voyageurs dans la ville de Gand, ou Notice historique sur cette ville, ses monumens, ses institutions, sa statistique, etc. (Ghent, Louis De Busscher)[4]

## Births

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* 11 April – Euphrosine Beernaert, landscape painter (died 1901)
* 12 April – Constantin Meunier, painter and sculptor (died 1905)
* 25 April – Edmond Reusens, archaeologist (died 1903)
* 30 May – Louis Roersch, philologist (died 1891)
* 8 July – Antoine-Félix Bouré, monumental sculptor (died 1883)
* 29 July – Léopold Harzé, sculptor (died 1893)
* 26 September – François-Joseph Scohy, archaeologist (died 1881)
* 30 September – Joseph Delboeuf, psychologist (died 1896)

## Deaths

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François de Méan

* 15 January – François de Méan (born 1756), archbishop of Mechelen
* 27 March – Jean Kickx (born 1775), botanist and mineralogist
* 5 April – Pierre Léonard Vander Linden (born 1797), entomologist
* 21 November – Marie Anne Simonis (born 1758), industrialist

## References

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1. ^ a b c d William Henry Overall, The dictionary of chronology, or historical and statistical register (London, 1870), p. 76.
2. ^ On Google Books
3. ^ vol. 1 and vol. 2 on Google Books
4. ^ Voisin, Auguste (1831). "Guide des voyageurs dans la ville de Gand, ou Notice historique sur cette ville, ses monumens, ses institutions, sa statistique, etc".

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