1832 in Belgium

Events in the year 1832 in Belgium.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Leopold I
 * Head of government: Félix de Muelenaere (to 20 October); Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella (from 20 October)

Events

 * 8 April – Engelbert Sterckx consecrated as Archbishop of Mechelen
 * 11 July
 * Order of Leopold established.
 * Provisional postal convention between Belgium and the Office of the Prince of Tour and Taxis signed in Frankfurt am Main.
 * 9 August – Leopold I of Belgium marries Louise of Orléans.
 * 20 October – Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella replaces Félix de Muelenaere as Prime Minister
 * 15 November to 23 December – Siege of Antwerp: Belgian army with French support invests Antwerp Citadel, held by Dutch forces.
 * 23 December – Siege of Antwerp concludes: Dutch forces removed from Antwerp Citadel.

Publications

 * Almanach de poche de Bruxelles (Brussels, M.-E. Rampelbergh)
 * Annuaire industriel et administratif de la Belgique par province: Province du Brabant (Brussels)

Art and architecture

 * Paintings
 * Joseph De Cauwer, Prometheus Delivered by Hercules (now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent)

Births

 * Date uncertain – Oswald Orth, philologist (died 1920)


 * 2 February – Gédéon Bordiau, architect (died 1904)
 * 8 March – William Henry James Weale, art historian (died 1917)
 * 24 March – Edouard Osy de Zegwaart, politician (died 1900)
 * 21 August – Charles-Joseph de Harlez de Deulin, Orientalist (died 1899)
 * 11 November – Paul Goethals, Archbishop of Calcutta (died 1901)
 * 10 December – Antoon Stillemans, bishop of Ghent (died 1916)
 * 13 December – Polydore de Keyser, Lord Mayor of London (died 1898)

Deaths

 * Date uncertain – William Cockerill (born 1757/9), industrialist
 * 16 December – Charles van Hulthem (born 1764), politician and bibliophile