1841 in Belgium

Events in the year 1841 in Belgium.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Leopold I
 * Prime Minister: Joseph Lebeau (to 13 April); Jean-Baptiste Nothomb (from 13 April)

Events

 * 13 April – Nothomb ministry comes to power.
 * 8 June – Parliamentary elections.
 * 15 July – Exposition des Produits le l'Industrie Nationale opens in Brussels.
 * 19 September – Founding of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium.

Publications

 * Periodicals
 * Almanach de la cour
 * Almanach royal de Belgique (Brussels, Librairie Polytechnique)
 * Annuaire de l'Académie royale des sciences et belles-letres de Bruxelles
 * Annuaire dramatique de la Belgique
 * Bulletins de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique
 * Journal de Bruxelles begins publication.
 * Messager des sciences historiques
 * La renaissance: Chronique des arts et de la littérature, 2.
 * Revue belge, vol. 17 (Liège, A. Jeunehomme)
 * Revue de Bruxelles


 * Monographs and reports
 * Joseph Jean De Smet (ed.), Recueil des chroniques de Flandre, vol. 2 (Brussels, Commission royale d'Histoire)
 * Xavier Heuschling, Essai sur la statistique générale de la Belgique, 2nd edition (Brussels, Etablissement Géographique)
 * François Joseph Ferdinand Marchal, Histoire des Pays-Bas autrichiens (Brussels, Deprez-Parent)
 * M. E. Perrot, Revue de l'exposition des produits le l'industrie nationale en 1841 (Brussels)


 * Guide books
 * A. Ferrier, Guide pittoresque du voyageur en Belgique (3rd edition, Brussels, Société Belge de Librairie)
 * James Emerson Tennent, Belgium (2 volumes, London, R. Bentley)

Art and architecture

 * Paintings
 * Louis Gallait, The Abdication of Charles V
 * Antoine Wiertz, La Chute des Anges rebelles


 * Buildings
 * Jean Baptiste De Baets, St. Stefanus, Ghent
 * Greenhouses of the Botanical Garden of Liège

Births

 * 25 January – Cornelius Van Leemputten, painter (died 1902)
 * 12 July – César De Paepe, syndicalist (died 1890)
 * 12 August – Leon Van Loo, photographer (died 1907)
 * 20 November – Victor D'Hondt, lawyer (died 1902)
 * 6 December – Aimé Dupont, photographer (died 1900)

Deaths

 * 23 March – Jean-Baptiste Thorn (born 1783), politician
 * 10 April – Henri Van Assche (born 1774), painter
 * 28 April – Henri-Joseph van den Corput (born 1790), pharmacist
 * 20 August – Constantinus Fidelio Coene (born 1780), painter