1844 in Belgium

Events in the year 1844 in Belgium.

Incumbents

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

Events

 * 1 January
 * Royal decree establishes spelling rules for Dutch in Belgium.
 * Vlaemsch België, first Dutch-language daily newspaper in Belgium, launched.


 * 6 February – Conseil héraldique de Belgique established
 * 27 May – Provincial elections
 * 19 October – Postal convention between Britain and Belgium signed in London.


 * undated
 * Belgian Pontifical College established

Publications

 * Periodicals
 * Annales de la Société royale des beaux-arts et de littérature de Gand
 * Annuaire de l'Académie royale des sciences et belles-lettres de Bruxelles, 10
 * Annuaire de l'état militaire de Belgique
 * Gazette médicale belge
 * Messager des sciences historiques
 * Nouvelle Revue de Bruxelles
 * La renaissance: Chronique des arts et de la littérature, 5.


 * Official publications
 * Convention de limites entre la Belgique et les Pays-Bas, conclue à Maestricht le 8 aout 1843 (Brussels, Imprimerie du Moniteur Belge, 1844)
 * État de l'instruction supérieure en Belgique (Brussels, M. Devroye)
 * Pasicrisie belge: recueil général de la jurisprudence des cours (Brussels, Société Typographique Belge)


 * Others
 * Auguste Baron, La Belgique monumentale, historique et pittoresque (Brussels, A. Jamar & Ch. Hen)
 * Pierre de Decker, Études historiques et critiques sur les monts-de-piété en Belgique (Brussels, Société des Beaux-Arts)
 * Laurent-Guillaume de Koninck, Description des animaux fossiles qui se trouvent dans le terrain carbonifère de Belgique (Liège, H. Dessain)
 * Jules de Saint-Genois, Anna: historisch tafereel uit de Vlaemsche geschiedenis tydens Maria van Bourgonje
 * Jean-Joseph Thonissen, Constitution belge annotée (Hasselt, P.-F. Milis)
 * Alphonse Wauters, Les délices de la Belgique (Brussels, Société des Beaux-Arts)

Births

 * 24 March – Camille Lemonnier, writer (died 1913)
 * 10 April – Jules de Burlet, politician (died 1897)
 * 27 April – Théophile Wahis, colonial governor (died 1921)
 * 3 June – Paul Mansion, mathematician (died 1919)
 * 21 November – Jenny Minne-Dansaert, lacemaker (died 1909)
 * 16 December – Victor Chauvin, Orientalist (died 1913)

Deaths

 * 13 April – Frédéric Théodore Faber (born 1782), painter
 * 14 October – Jan Baptiste de Jonghe (born 1785), painter