1843 in Belgium

Events in the year 1843 in Belgium.

Incumbents

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

Events

 * Pierre-Joseph van Beneden establishes the world's first marine laboratory in Ostend
 * 12 June – Parliamentary elections
 * 21 July – Antwerp Zoo established
 * 7 August – Border convention between Belgium and the Luxembourg concluded at Maastricht.
 * 8 August – Border convention between Belgium and the Netherlands concluded at Maastricht.

Publications

 * Periodicals
 * Almanach royal de Belgique (Brussels, Librairie Polytechnique)
 * La Belgique judiciaire: gazette des tribunaux belges et étrangers
 * Bulletin et Annales de l'Académie d'Archéologie de Belgique begins publication.
 * Journal historique et littéraire, vol. 10 (Liège, Pierre Kersten)
 * La renaissance: Chronique des arts et de la littérature, 4.
 * Revue de Bruxelles changes title to Nouvelle Revue de Bruxelles.
 * Revue nationale de Belgique, Vol. 9


 * Monographs and reports
 * État de l'instruction moyenne en Belgique, 1830-1842
 * Notice statistique sur les Journaux Belges: 1830-1842
 * Edward Dobson, An Historical, Statistical, and Scientific Account of the Railways of Belgium from 1834 to 1842 (London, John Weale)
 * Charles Marcellis, Coup d'oeuil sur la Belgique en 1843
 * Pierre-Joseph Van Beneden, Recherches sur l'embryogénie des tubulaires
 * Pierre-Joseph Van Beneden, Mémoire sur les campanulaires de la côte d'Ostende


 * Literature
 * Henry Robert Addison, Belgium as she is (Brussels and Leipzig, C. Muquardt)
 * Hendrik Conscience, Hoe men schilder wordt
 * Hendrik Conscience, Wat een Moeder lijden kan

Births

 * 18 March – Jules Vandenpeereboom, politician (died 1917)
 * 26 April – Paul de Vigne, sculptor (died 1901)
 * 13 May – Paul de Smet de Naeyer, politician (died 1913)
 * 25 July – Edmond Hanssens, colonial administrator (died 1884)
 * 19 September – Charles van der Stappen, sculptor (died 1910)

Deaths

 * 2 March – François-Joseph-Philippe de Riquet (born 1771), prince of Chimay
 * 12 December – William I of the Netherlands (born 1772), former head of state