Events in the year 1854 in Belgium.
Incumbents Monarch: Leopold I Head of government: Henri de Brouckère
Events 27 February – Commercial treaty with France on tariffs, transit and navigation for five years.C. Pety de Thozée, Système commercial de la Belgique, vol. 2 (Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe, 1875), pp. 23-26. 22 May – Provincial elections 13 June – Partial legislative elections of 1854
Publications Periodicals Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, H. Tarlier)On Google Books Annales de l'Académie d'archéologie de Belgique, vol. 11 (Antwerp, Froment)On Google Books Annales de pomologie belge et étrangère, vol. 2.On Wikisource (French)On Google Books Isidore de Stein d'Altenstein (ed.), Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique, vol. 8 (Brussels, Auguste Decq and C. Muquardt)Annuaire on Google Books. Bulletins de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 21 (Brussels, Hayez)On Google Books Collection de précis historiques, vol. 5, edited by Edouard Terwecoren Messager des sciences historiques (Ghent, L. Hebbelynck)Messager des sciences historiques on Google Books
Books Hendrik Conscience, Tales of Flemish life (Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature 3; Edinburgh, Thomas Constable)Tales of Flemish life on Google Books Charles Meerts, Dictionnaire Géographique et Statistique du Royaume de Belgique (Brussels, H. Goemaere)Dictionnaire Géographique on Google Books Jules de Saint-Genois, Historische verhalen Belgique industrielle: vues des établissements industriels de la Belgique (Brussels, Jules Géruzet)Belgique industrielle on Google Books Exposition générale des Beaux-Arts, 1854: Catalogue explicatif (Brussels, G. Stapleaux)Exposition générale des Beaux-Arts on Google Books
Art and architecture
Paintings Antoine Wiertz, The Premature Burial
Births 22 April – Henri La Fontaine, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1943) 15 May – Émile Van Arenbergh, magistrate and writer (died 1934) 25 May – Joseph Van den Gheyn, Jesuit (died 1913) 2 July – Achille Gerste, Jesuit linguist (died 1920) 18 July – Émile Dossin de Saint-Georges, general (died 1936) 22 October – Édouard de Laveleye, engineer (died 1938) 31 October – Rémy Cogghe, painter (died 1935)
Deaths 28 February – Zoé de Gamond (born 1806), feminist 17 September – Joseph De Cauwer (born 1779), painter 16 October – Goswin de Stassart (born 1780), politician
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