1842 in Belgium

Events in the year 1842 in Belgium.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Leopold I
 * Prime Minister: Jean-Baptiste Nothomb

Events

 * Royal Academy of Archaeology of Belgium founded.
 * 23 May – Provincial elections
 * 16 July – "Linen convention" exempts Belgian textiles from French protectionist measures in return for a reduction in the Belgian tariff on French wines.
 * 23 September – Education Act stipulates that each local authority must maintain at least one primary school.
 * 5 November – Belgian-Dutch convention on trade and inland navigation signed in The Hague.

Publications

 * Periodicals
 * Almanach royal de Belgique (Brussels, Librairie Polytechnique)
 * Annuaire politique, écclésiastique, judiciaire, noliaire, militaire, administratif et commercial de la Belgique (Brussels, Librairie Polytechnique)
 * Messager des sciences historiques (Ghent)
 * La renaissance: Chronique des arts et de la littérature, 3.
 * Revue de Bruxelles


 * Monographs and reports
 * Statistique de la Belgique: 1831–40 (Brussels)

Births

 * 7 May – Isala Van Diest, physician (died 1916)
 * 24 August – Edouard Agneessens, painter (died 1885)
 * 6 December – Marie Collart, painter (died 1911)

Deaths

 * 10 March – Joseph Van Crombrugghe (born 1770), politician
 * 6 September – Jean-Baptiste Van Mons (born 1765), pomologist