1853 in Belgium

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See also:| Other events of 1853
List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1853 in Belgium.

## Incumbents

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Monarch: Leopold I
Head of government: Henri de Brouckère

## Events

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Leopold, Duke of Brabant, sworn in as a member of the Belgian Senate

* 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.

## Publications

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

Periodicals

* 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]

Guidebooks and directories

* 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]

## Art and architecture

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Aalst railway station

Buildings

* Aalst railway station

Paintings

* Henri Leys, Frans Floris Going to a Saint Luke's Day Feast 1540
* Charles Verlat, Buffalo Ambushed by a Tiger
* Antoine Wiertz, Hunger, Madness and Crime

## Births

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* 31 January – Marie-Elisabeth Belpaire, Flemish activist (died 1948)
* 14 February – Jan Van Rijswijck, politician (died 1906)
* 20 December – Marie Parent, feminist (died 1934)

## Deaths

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* 11 January – Floris Nollet (born 1794), engineer
* 18 January – Antoine Payen the Younger (born 1792), painter
* 12 February – Joseph Van Hoorde (born 1818), horticulturalist
* 5 March — Hirsch Sommerhausen (born 1781), educator and translator
* 30 April – Edouard Mary (born 1796), social reformer
* 3 December – Lazare Richtenberger (born 1792), banker

## References

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

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