Events in the year 1843 in Belgium.
Incumbents Monarch: Leopold I Prime Minister: Jean-Baptiste NothombGeorges-Henri Dumont, Chronologie de la Belgique: De 1830 à nos jours (Le Cri, 2017).
Events
Pierre-Joseph van Beneden establishes the world's first marine laboratory in Ostend 12 June – Parliamentary elections 21 July – Antwerp Zoo established 7 August – Border convention between Belgium and the Luxembourg concluded at Maastricht. 8 August – Treaty of Maastricht: border convention between Belgium and the Netherlands. 15 October – Official opening of the Antwerp–Cologne railway, the first "Iron Rhine"Frank Witlox, "The Iron Rhine Railway Link: A Chronicle of Dutch-Flemish Geo-politics Based on Contextual History", Journal of European Economic History 35/1 (2006), pp. 149-173.
Art and architecture
Buildings Théâtre Royal de Mons, opened 18 October
Paintings Petrus van Schendel, Night Market in Antwerp
Publications Periodicals Almanach royal de Belgique (Brussels, Librairie Polytechnique) La Belgique judiciaire: gazette des tribunaux belges et étrangers Bulletin et Annales de l'Académie d'Archéologie de Belgique begins publication. Journal historique et littéraire, vol. 10 (Liège, Pierre Kersten) La renaissance: Chronique des arts et de la littérature, 4. Revue de Bruxelles changes title to Nouvelle Revue de Bruxelles. Revue nationale de Belgique, Vol. 9
Monographs and reports État de l'instruction moyenne en Belgique, 1830-1842 Notice statistique sur les Journaux Belges: 1830-1842 Edward Dobson, An Historical, Statistical, and Scientific Account of the Railways of Belgium from 1834 to 1842 (London, John Weale) Charles Marcellis, Coup d'oeuil sur la Belgique en 1843 Laurent Remacle, Dictionnaire wallon-français, vol. 2 Pierre-Joseph Van Beneden, Recherches sur l'embryogénie des tubulaires Pierre-Joseph Van Beneden, Mémoire sur les campanulaires de la côte d'Ostende
Literature Henry Robert Addison, Belgium as she is (Brussels and Leipzig, C. Muquardt) Le Bibliophile Jacob (pseudonym), Galerie des Femmes de George Sand, illustrated by H. Robinson (Brussels, Haumann) Hendrik Conscience, Hoe men schilder wordt Hendrik Conscience, Wat een Moeder lijden kan
Births 18 March – Jules Vandenpeereboom, politician (died 1917) 26 April – Paul de Vigne, sculptor (died 1901) 13 May – Paul de Smet de Naeyer, politician (died 1913) 27 June – Théodore Bernier, antiquarian (died 1893) 25 July – Edmond Hanssens, colonial administrator (died 1884) 19 September – Charles van der Stappen, sculptor (died 1910)
Deaths 2 March – François-Joseph-Philippe de Riquet (born 1771), prince of Chimay 12 December – William I of the Netherlands (born 1772), former head of state
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