The following events occurred in Belgium in the year 1855.
Incumbents
Monarch: Leopold I Head of government: Henri de Brouckère (to 30 March); Pierre de Decker (from 30 March)
Events
21 January – Fire at the Monnaie Theatre. 30 March – Pierre de Decker succeeds Henri de Brouckère as Prime Minister. 9 April – Royal Belgian Entomological Society founded. 12 June – Elections to the Senate 29 June – Telegraphic convention between Belgium, France and Prussia signed in Berlin. Collège Saint-François-Xavier established in Verviers.
Publications Periodicals Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, H. Tarlier)Almanach royal officiel on Google Books. Annales de pomologie belge et étrangère, vol. 3.Annales de pomologie on Wikisource (French).Annales de pomologie on Google Books. Annuaire statistique et historique belge, vol. 2, edited by Auguste Scheler (Brussels, Kiessling-Schnee & Cie.)Annuaire statistique on Google Books. La Belgique Horticole, vol. 5.La Belgique Horticole on Google Books. Bulletin de la Commission Centrale de Statistique (Brussels, M. Hayez) Collection de précis historiques, vol. 6, edited by Edouard Terwecoren Le Guide musical begins publication with Schott frères Messager des sciences historiques (Ghent, L. Hebbelynck) Pasicrisie ou recueil général de la jurisprudence des cours de France et de Belgique (Brussels, E. Bruylant., 1855) Pasinomie: collection complète des lois, décrets, ordonnances, arrêtés et règlements généraux, edited by M. Ranwet (Brussels, Meline, Cans et Cie.) Vaderlandsch museum voor Nederduitsche letterkunde, oudheid en geschiedenis begins publication, edited by Constant-Philippe Serrure.
Books Hendrik Conscience, The Lion of Flanders, English translation (London, Lambert & co.) Hendrik Conscience, Tales of Old Flanders: Count Hugo of Craenhove and Wooden Clara (London, Lambert & co.) Walter Scott, France and Belgium (Edinburgh, Adam & Charles Black) Jean-Joseph Thonissen, La Belgique sous le règne de Léopold I, vol. 1 (Liège, J.-G. Lardinois)
Art and architecture
Buildings Gustave Saintenoy, Quartier Leopold railway station, Brussels
Paintings Jean Carolus, Baby's First Steps Jean Carolus, The Finishing Touches Emile De Cauwer, Church Interior Henri Joseph Dillens, The Bird's Nest Charles Leickert, Coastal scene with fisherfolk Henri Leys, Home-Coming Alfred Stevens, The Painter and His Model Ildephonse Stocquart, Fleeing the Storm François Stroobant, Courtyard of the Palace of Margaret of Austria
Births 14 March – Émile Wangermée, colonial officer (died 1924) 16 April – Edouard de Jans, painter (died 1919) 3 May – Amaat Joos, priest (died 1937) 9 May – Emilie Claeys, feminist (died 1943) 10 May – Anthony Bowlby, soldier (died 1929) 21 May – Émile Verhaeren, poet (died 1916) 9 July – Jakob Smits, painter (died 1928) 16 July – Georges Rodenbach, author (died 1898) 21 August – Auguste Toubeau, trade unionist (died 1912) 1 September – Eugène Boch, painter (died 1941) 3 September – Emilius Seghers, bishop of Ghent (died 1927) 4 September – Théophile Alexis Durand, botanist (died 1912) 6 October – Alexandre Delcommune, soldier (died 1922) 22 December – Victor Deguise, general (died 1925)
Deaths 27 February – Louis Lambillotte (born 1796), Jesuit musicologist 24 April – Angelus de Baets (born 1793), painter 13 November – James Oliver Van de Velde (born 1795), bishop 20 December – Pierre-Ernest Dams (born 1794), politician
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