1833 in Belgium

Events in the year 1833 in Belgium.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Leopold I
 * Prime Minister: Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella

Events

 * 23 January – Treaty of amity and navigation with the United States signed but never ratified.
 * 23 February – Grand Orient of Belgium established, with Goswin de Stassart as first Grand Master
 * 21 May – Convention of London indefinitely extends ceasefire with the Kingdom of the Netherlands following the Belgian Revolution of 1830
 * 23 May – 1833 Belgian general election
 * 16 June – Jean Arnold Barrett consecrated as Bishop of Namur
 * 18 July – Law on distilleries passed, establishing a duty of 22 centimes per hectolitre per day on distillation containers used.
 * 8 September – First Daughters of the Cross make their vows (founder Marie Thérèse Haze).
 * October – Opening of Sint-Barbaracollege, re-established Jesuit college in Ghent.
 * 8 October – Belgian Iron Cross established to honour bravery during the Belgian Revolution
 * 18 November – Treaty of Zonhoven between Belgium and the Netherlands, regulating navigation on the Meuse River

Publications

 * Almanach de poche de Bruxelles (Brussels, M.-E. Rampelbergh)
 * Almanach de la Province de la Flandre Orientale (Ghent, Vanderhaeghe-Maya)
 * Pasinomie, ou Collection complète des lois, décrets, arrêtés et règlemens généraux qui peuvent être invoqués en Belgique, vol. 1.

Births

 * 7 February – Eugène Anspach, governor of the national bank (died 1890)
 * 18 March – José Dupuis, performer (died 1900)
 * 6 April – Charles De Smedt, Church historian (died 1911)
 * 24 July – Louis-Philippe, Crown Prince of Belgium (died 1834)
 * 4 November – Théophile de Lantsheere, politician (died 1918)

Deaths

 * 20 February – Jean-Baptiste de Bouge (born 1757), cartographer
 * 12 May – Philippe-Auguste Hennequin (born 1762), artist
 * 26 September – Auguste Marie Raymond d'Arenberg (born 1753), aristocrat