1839 in Belgium

Events in the year 1839 in Belgium.

Incumbents

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

Events

 * 19 April – Treaty of London guarantees Belgian independence and neutrality; Luxembourg and Limburg partitioned.
 * 21 May – Royal Library of Belgium opens to the public.
 * 11 June – Parliamentary elections

Publications

 * Maetschappy der Vlaemsche Bibliophilen founded by Constant-Philippe Serrure and Philip Blommaert as a text publication society to produce editions of medieval Flemish literature.


 * Periodicals
 * Bibliographie de la Belgique, ou catalogue général de livres belges (Brussels, C. Muquardt)
 * Revue de Bruxelles, 3.


 * Official publications
 * Machines à vapeur: Arrêtés et instructions (Brussels, Librairie Polytechnique)


 * Other works
 * Kronyk van Vlaenderen van 580 tot 1467 (2 vols, Ghent, Maetschappy der Vlaemsche Bibliophilen).
 * Le promeneur dans Bruxelles et dans ses environs (Brussels, Société Typographique Belge)
 * Mrs. Wemyss Dalrymple, The Economist's New Brussels Guide (Brussels, W. Todd)
 * Louis de Potter, Révolution belge, 1828 à 1839: Souvenirs personnels (Brussels, Meline, Cans & co.)
 * Joseph Jean De Smet, Abrégé de l'histoire de la Belgique, third edition (Ghent)
 * Pierre Simons and Gustave Nicolas Joseph de Ridder, Le Chemin de fer belge, ou recueil des mémoires et devis pour l'établissement du chemin de fer d'Anvers et Ostende à Cologne, avec embranchement de Bruxelles et de Gand aux frontières de France, 3rd edition (Brussels, Lacross et Cie.)
 * Auguste Voisin, La bataille de Woeringen: récit historique (Brussels, Société des Beaux-Arts)

Art and architecture

 * Antoine Wiertz, Esmeralda, Quasimodo

Births

 * 10 February – Max Rooses, writer and museum curator (died 1914)
 * 1 March – Élie Marchal, botanist (died 1923)
 * 28 July – Isabelle Gatti de Gamond, feminist educator (died 1905)
 * 7 August – Charles Hermans, painter (died 1924)
 * 30 August – Henri Maquet, architect (died 1909)
 * 18 October – Alphonse Joseph Charles Dubois, naturalist (died 1921)
 * 18 December – Adolf Daens, radical priest (died 1907)
 * 26 December – Charles John Seghers, missionary bishop (died 1886)

Deaths

 * 9 June – Joseph Paelinck (born 1781), painter
 * 7 August – Erasme Louis Surlet de Chokier (born 1769), politician
 * 15 December – Mattheus Ignatius van Bree (born 1773), painter