1847 in Belgium

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Events in the year 1847 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Charles Rogier, Prime Minister 1847–1852 and 1857–1868

• Monarch: Leopold I
• Prime Minister: Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt (to 12 August); Charles Rogier (from 12 August)

Events

A 19th-century view of the Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert, opened 20 June 1847

• 7 June – Théâtre des Galeries opens in Brussels.
• 8 June – Partial legislative elections.
• 20 June – Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert shopping arcade opened in Brussels.
• 1 July – Opening of the Exposition des produits de l'industrie nationale in Brussels.
• 9 August – Antwerp–Ghent railway line completed.
• 27 September – Premonstratensians return to Postel Abbey.

Publications

Periodicals

• Annales parlementaires de Belgique
• Bulletins de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique (Brussels, M. Hayez), vol. 14.
• Messager des sciences historiques (Ghent, Léonard Hebbelynck).
• Revue de Bruxelles

Exhibitions

• J.B.A.M. Jobard, Exposition de l'industrie Belge 1847
• Catalogue des produits de l'industrie belge admis à l'exposition de 1847

Scholarship

• André Dumont, Mémoire sur les terrains Ardennais et Rhénan de l'Ardenne, du Rhin, du Brabant et du Condros (Brussels, Hayez)
• Émile Louis Victor de Laveleye, L'Histoire des rois francs

Literature

• Tegenwoordig België (Liberalen, Katholyken en Vlaemsche-beweging) door Een' Noord-Nederlander beoordeeld (Ghent, Snoeck-Ducaju en zoon); reprinted from De Gids.
• Hippoliet Van Peene, "De Vlaamse Leeuw", song set to music by Karel Miry
• Hippoliet Van Peene, Willem van Dampierre, historical drama

Art and architecture

Antoine Wiertz, La Belle Rosine (1847)

Buildings

• Jean-Pierre Cluysenaar's Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert completed

Paintings

• Antoine Wiertz, La Belle Rosine

Births

• 9 March – Martin Pierre Marsick, composer (died 1924)
• 9 April – Léon Mignon, sculptor (died 1898)
• 11 May – Godefroid Kurth, historian (died 1916)
• 27 August – Édouard Descamps, jurist and politician (died 1933)
• 31 August – Arthur Verhaegen, architect and politician (died 1917)
• 3 October – Frantz Jourdain, architect (died 1935)

Deaths

• 19 March – Karel Lodewijk Ledeganck (born 1805), writer
• 4 April – Julie du Bosch (born 1797), social reformer