1837 in Belgium

Events in the year 1837 in Belgium.

Incumbents

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

Events

 * 21 March – Flooding in Burcht and Stabroek.
 * 13 June – Parliamentary elections
 * 19 June – Charles van Hulthem's book collection bought by the state; the core of the collection of the Royal Library of Belgium.
 * 21 August – Victor Hugo travels by train for the first time while visiting Belgium.
 * 4 October – Société Civile pour l'Agrandissement et l'Embellissement de Bruxelles established, to develop the Leopold Quarter in Brussels.
 * 12 November – Parliament approves 10 million franc government loan to build railways.
 * 28 December – Pastoral letter of Belgian bishops deprecates Catholic membership of masonic lodges.

Publications

 * Periodicals
 * Almanach de poche de Bruxelles (Brussels, M.-E. Rampelbergh)
 * Annuaire du clergé catholique du royaume de Belgique (Brussels, Veuve J.-J. Vanderborght)
 * Journal historique et littéraire, vol. 4 (Liège, P. Kersten).
 * Messager des sciences et des arts de la Belgique, vol. 5 (Ghent, Léonard Hebbelynck)
 * Revue de Bruxelles begins publication


 * Reference works
 * Pasinomie, ou Collection complète des lois, décrets, arrêtés et règlements généraux qui peuvent être invoqués en Belgique
 * Dictionnaire des hommes de lettres, des savans et des artistes de la Belgique (Brussels, Établissement Géographique)


 * Non-fiction
 * Joseph Jean De Smet (ed.), Recueil des chroniques de Flandre, vol. 1.
 * Johann Wilhelm Löbell, Lettres sur la Belgique (Brussels)
 * Félix Victor Goethals, Lectures relatives à l'histoire des sciences, des arts, des lettres, des moeurs, et de la politique en Belgique, et dans les pays limitrophes, vol. 1 (Brussels, Imprimerie de Vandooren for the author).


 * Fiction
 * Jules de Saint-Genois, La cour du duc Jean IV, chronique brabançonne, 1418-1421

Births

 * 26 February – Charles Woeste, politician (died 1922)
 * 24 March – Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders (died 1905)
 * 14 June – Frans Jozef Peter van den Branden, writer (died 1922)
 * 5 December – Camille Janssen, colonial governor (died 1926)
 * 27 December – Émile de Borchgrave, diplomat (died 1917)

Deaths

 * 27 February – Françoise-Jeanne Ridderbosch (born 1754), artist
 * 17 April – Édouard de Walckiers (born 1758), banker
 * 8 May – James Cockerill (born 1787), industrialist
 * 17 August – Charles Felix Van Quickenborne (born 1788), founder of Saint Louis University.