1862 in Belgium

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List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1862 in Belgium.

## Incumbents

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Monarch: Leopold I
Head of government: Charles Rogier

## Events

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* Chimay Brewery founded
* Belgian Catholic Mission to China established

March

* 3 March – Leopold I of Belgium writes a letter to the dean of Windsor expressing a desire to be buried alongside his first wife, Princess Charlotte of Wales.[1]: 672
* 29 March – Two members of a criminal gang guillotined in Charleroi.[1]: 672

April

* 11 April – Belgian Navy abolished.[1]: 672

May

* 26 May – Provincial elections

July

* 23 July – Anglo-Belgian Treaty of Commerce and Navigation signed.[1]: 672

September

* 16 September – Victor Hugo's Brussels publisher, Albert Lacroix, holds a banquet to celebrate the success of Les Misérables

## Architecture

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Loppem Castle

* Loppem Castle (designed by E. W. Pugin and Jean-Baptiste Bethune) completed

## Publications

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Periodicals and series

* Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, H. Tarlier)[2]
* La Belgique Horticole, vol. 12.[3]
* Collection de précis historiques, vol. 11, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J.[4]
* L'Education de la Femme begins publication
* Recueil des lois et arrêtés royaux de Belgique, vol. 49 (Brussels, Imprimerie du Moniteur Belge)[5]
* Revue belge et étrangère, vol. 13.[6]
* De Vlaemsche school: tijdschrift voor kunsten, letteren, wetenschappen, ouheidskunde en kunstnyverheid, vol. 8.[7]

Monographs and reports

* Robert Scott Burn, Notes of an Agricultural Tour in Belgium, Holland, & the Rhine (London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green)[8]
* Louis Galesloot, Procès de François Anneessens, doyen du corps des métiers de Bruxelles, vol. 1 (Brussels and The Hague)[9]

Literature and the arts

* Maria Doolaeghe, Sinte Godelieve, Vlaemsche legende uit de XIde eeuw
* Guido Gezelle, Gedichten, Gezangen en Gebeden
* Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, published in Brussels, then in Paris and Leipzig by A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven & Cie.
* William Henry James Weale, Restauration des monuments publics en Belgique, second edition[10]

## Births

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* 22 May — Joseph Amerlinck, engineer (died 1915)
* 19 June – Paul Saintenoy, architect (died 1952)
* 29 August – Maurice Maeterlinck, author (died 1949)
* 10 December – Georges Hulin de Loo, art historian (died 1945)

## Deaths

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* 29 January – Louis-Joseph Seutin (born 1793), surgeon and senator
* 10 March – Pieter van Hanselaere (born 1786), painter
* 5 August – Felix de Muelenaere (born 1793), Catholic politician
* 8 December – Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen (born 1796), liberal politician

## References

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1. ^ a b c d Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987).
2. ^ Almanach on Google Books.
3. ^ Belgique Horticole on Google Books.
4. ^ Collection de précis historiques on Google Books.
5. ^ Recueil des lois on Google Books.
6. ^ Revue belge on Google Books.
7. ^ De Vlaemsche school on Google Books.
8. ^ Notes of an Agricultural Tour on Google Books.
9. ^ Procès de François Anneessens, vol. 1 on Google Books.
10. ^ Restauration des monuments on Google Books.

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