Events in the year 1862 in Belgium.
Incumbents Monarch: Leopold I Head of government: Charles Rogier
Events 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.Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987). 29 March – Two members of a criminal gang guillotined in Charleroi.
April 11 April – Belgian Navy abolished.
May 26 May – Provincial elections
July 23 July – Anglo-Belgian Treaty of Commerce and Navigation signed.
September 16 September – Victor Hugo's Brussels publisher, Albert Lacroix, holds a banquet to celebrate the success of Les Misérables
Art and architecture
Buildings Loppem Castle (designed by E. W. Pugin and Jean-Baptiste Bethune) completed
Paintings
Charles Soubre, View of the Castle in Remouchamps
Publications Periodicals and series Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, H. Tarlier)Almanach on Google Books. La Belgique Horticole, vol. 12.Belgique Horticole on Google Books. Collection de précis historiques, vol. 11, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J.Collection de précis historiques on Google Books. L'Education de la Femme begins publication Recueil des lois et arrêtés royaux de Belgique, vol. 49 (Brussels, Imprimerie du Moniteur Belge)Recueil des lois on Google Books. Revue belge et étrangère, vol. 13.Revue belge on Google Books. De Vlaemsche school: tijdschrift voor kunsten, letteren, wetenschappen, ouheidskunde en kunstnyverheid, vol. 8.De Vlaemsche school on Google Books.
Monographs and reports Robert Scott Burn, Notes of an Agricultural Tour in Belgium, Holland, & the Rhine (London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green)Notes of an Agricultural Tour on Google Books. Louis Galesloot, Procès de François Anneessens, doyen du corps des métiers de Bruxelles, vol. 1 (Brussels and The Hague)Procès de François Anneessens, vol. 1 on Google Books.
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 editionRestauration des monuments on Google Books.
Births 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 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
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