1845 in Belgium

Events in the year 1845 in Belgium.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Leopold I
 * Prime Minister: Jean-Baptiste Nothomb (to 30 July); Sylvain Van de Weyer (from 30 July)

Events

 * 10 June – partial legislative election
 * 16 September – Parliament meets in extraordinary session to debate responses to the failure of the potato crop
 * 10 November – Commercial treaty with the United States signed by Thomas Green Clemson and Adolphe Deschamps in Brussels.

Publications

 * Periodicals
 * Almanach de poche de Bruxelles (Brussels, M. E. Rampelbergh)
 * Almanach royal de Belgique (Brussels, Librairie Polytechnique)
 * Annales de la Société royale des beaux-arts et de littérature de Gand
 * Annales parlementaires de Belgique, part 1, part 2.
 * Annuaire de l'Université Catholique de Louvain, vol. 9 (Leuven: Vanlinthout & Vandenzande).
 * Le bibliophile belge begins publication.
 * Bulletin de l'Académie royale de médecine de Belgique, vol. 4.
 * Compte-rendu des séances de la commission royale d'histoire, vols. 9 and 10
 * Journal de l'Instruction publique begins publication.
 * Messager des sciences historiques (Ghent, Léonard Hebbelynck)
 * Nouvelle Revue de Bruxelles
 * La renaissance: Chronique des arts et de la littérature, 6.


 * Studies and reports
 * Désiré Arnould, Situation administrative et financière des monts-de-piété en Belgique (Brussels, Imprimerie du Moniteur Belge)
 * Giovanni Arrivabene, Sur la condition des laboureurs et des ouvriers belges (Brussels, Meline, Cans & co.)
 * Adolphe Jullien, Notes diverses sur les chemins de fer: en Angleterre, en Belgique et en France (Paris, Carilian-Goeury & V. Dalmont)


 * Others
 * Les Belges illustres, vol. 3
 * Hendrik Conscience, De Geschiedenis van België (Antwerp, J.-E. Buschmann, and Brussels, Alex Jamar).
 * Lieven Everwyn, Korte levensschets van Jacob Van Artevelde (Ghent)
 * Guillaume Tell Poussin, La Belgique et les Belges depuis 1830 (Paris, W. Couquebert)

Births

 * 24 January – Albert Desenfans, sculptor (died 1938)
 * 27 January – Karel Ooms, painter (died 1900)
 * 9 February – Henri Gondry, colonial administrator (died 1889)
 * 25 February – Eugène Goossens, père, conductor (died 1906)
 * 5 March – Alphonse Hasselmans, composer (died 1912)
 * 13 June – Alphonse-Jules Wauters, writer and editor (died 1916)
 * 24 June – Georges Nagelmackers, engineer and entrepreneur (died 1905)
 * 9 August – Xavier Mellery, painter (died 1921)
 * 17 November – Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, mother of Albert I of Belgium (died 1912)
 * 2 December – Évariste Carpentier, painter (died 1922)

Deaths

 * 3 January – Philippus Jacobus Brepols (born 1778), entrepreneur
 * 23 March – Dominique II Berger (born 1780), carillonneur
 * 20 July – Alexandre Artôt (born 1815), violinist