1835 in Belgium

Events in the year 1835 in Belgium.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Leopold I
 * Prime Minister: Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt

Events

 * 12 February – Court of Cassation finds that the laws on injury and manslaughter apply to participants in duels.
 * 5 May – First Belgian railway line, between Brussels and Mechelen, taken into service, with three locomotives: Flèche, Eléphant, and Stephenson.
 * 10 May – Gaspard-Joseph Labis becomes bishop of Tournai.
 * 9 June – 1835 Belgian general election
 * 8 August – Brussels Coin Cabinet opens
 * 15 September – Exposition des produits de l'industrie nationale opens in Brussels.
 * 10 October – Second provisional postal convention between Belgium and the Office of the Prince of Tour and Taxis signed in Brussels.
 * 1 December – Catholic University of Mechelen relocates to Leuven, becoming Catholic University of Leuven.

Publications

 * Periodicals
 * Almanach administratif et industriel de Bruxelles (Brussels, Ad. Wahlen)
 * Almanach de poche de Bruxelles (Brussels, M.-E. Rampelbergh)
 * Annuaire de l'Académie royale de Belgique (Brussels, M. Hayez).
 * Bulletin médical Belge.
 * Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences et belles-lettres, Volume 2 (Brussels, M. Hayez).
 * Le cultivateur, journal belge d'économie rurale.
 * Messager des sciences et des arts de la Belgique, vol. 3 (Ghent, D. Duvivier).
 * Revue Belge (Liége, Jeunehomme frères).


 * Monographs and reports
 * Pasinomie: collection complète des lois, décrets, arrêtés et réglements généraux qui peuvent être invoqués en Belgique.
 * De l'industrie et du commerce en Belgique (Brussels, H. Remy).
 * Édouard Ducpétiaux, Statistique comparée de la criminalité en France, en Belgique, en Angleterre et en Allemagne (Brussels, L. Hauman).
 * Louis Prosper Gachard (ed.), Collection de documents inédits concernant l'histoire de la Belgique, vol. 3 (Brussels, Louis Hauman).
 * Jean-Baptiste Van Mons, Arbres fruitiers: leur culture en Belqique (Leuven, L. Dusart and H. Vandenbroeck).


 * Fiction
 * Jules de Saint-Genois, Hembyse


 * Guide books
 * A. X. Mauvy, The Stranger's Guide through Brussels and its Environs (Brussels, Adolphus Wahlen)
 * The Traveller's Guide Through Belgium (Brussels, Adolphus Wahlen)

Births

 * 21 January – Charles du Bois de Vroylande, politician (died 1888)
 * 2 February – Stanislas Bormans, archivist (died 1912)
 * 9 April – Leopold II of Belgium (died 1909)
 * 23 August – Jules Bara, politician (died 1900)
 * 28 September – Jean Louis Gobbaerts, composer (died 1886)
 * 20 October – Emile De Mot, mayor of Brussels (died 1909)
 * 4 November – Amedée Visart de Bocarmé, mayor of Bruges (died 1924)

Deaths

 * 24 February – Gilles-Lambert Godecharle (born 1750), sculptor
 * 3 June – Andreas Bernardus de Quertenmont (born 1750), artist