1838 in Belgium

Events in the year 1838 in Belgium.

Incumbents

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

Events

 * 7 April – Tariffs raised on woollen cloth, porcelain, glass, crystal and chemical products.
 * 15 May – Court of assizes to have jury verdicts.
 * 28 May – Provincial elections
 * 1 June – Parliament approves government loan of 2 million Belgian francs for building highways and railways.
 * June – Ghent linen factories begin mechanising.
 * 1 August – Westmalle Brewery begins operations
 * 24 September – Monument to the fallen of the Belgian Revolution inaugurated on Place des Martyrs, Brussels.
 * 3 September – Insurance scheme established for railway workers.
 * 17 December – Run on the Banque de Belgique.
 * 23 December – Declarations on postal reciprocity between Belgium and the Office of the Prince of Tour and Taxis signed in Frankfurt am Main.

Publications

 * Periodicals
 * Almanach royal et du commerce de Belgique (Brussels, Balleroy)
 * Annuaire du clergé catholique du royaume de Belgique (Brussels, L. Schapen)
 * Journal historique et littéraire, vol. 5 (Liège, P. Kersten).
 * Messager des sciences et des arts de la Belgique, vol. 6 (Ghent, Léonard Hebbelynck)
 * Revue de Bruxelles, 2.


 * Official publications
 * Documents statistiques sur le Royaume de Belgique: recueillis et publiés par le Ministre de l'Intérieur (Brussels, Ch.-J. de Mat)


 * Guidebooks and directories
 * Alexandre Ferrier de Tourettes, Guide pittoresque et artistique du voyageur en Belgique (Brussels, Société Belge de Librairie)


 * Fiction
 * Hendrik Conscience, De Leeuw van Vlaenderen (Antwerp, L.J. de Cort).

Art and architecture

 * Sculptures
 * Guillaume Geefs, Pro Patria, Place des Martyrs, Brussels

Births

 * 3 January – Joseph Dupont, violinist (died 1899)
 * 18 March – Jan Stobbaerts, painter (died 1914)
 * 14 April – Charles Moeller, historian (died 1922)
 * 16 April – Ernest Solvay, industrial chemist (died 1922)
 * 23 April – Alfred Verwee, painter (died 1895)
 * 9 July – Henriette Mayer van den Bergh, art collector (died 1920)
 * 7 September – Louis Delacenserie, architect (died 1909)
 * 6 October – Henry Gabriels, bishop (died 1921)
 * 15 October – August Vandekerkhove, writer and painter (died 1923)
 * 30 October – Lodewijk de Koninck, writer (died 1924)

Deaths

 * 9 February – Françoise Blin de Bourdon (born 1756), religious leader
 * 3 August – Nicolas-Jean Rouppe (born 1769), mayor of Brussels
 * 7 August – Jean-François van de Velde (born 1779), bishop of Ghent