1846 in Belgium

Events in the year 1846 in Belgium.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Leopold I
 * Prime Minister: Sylvain Van de Weyer (to 31 March); Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt (from 31 March)

Events

 * 21 March – Achel Priory founded as a filiation from Westmalle Abbey.
 * 25 May – Provincial elections
 * 14 June – Founding congress of the Liberal Party.
 * 29 July – Commercial treaty with the Netherlands.

Art and architecture

 * Buildings
 * 6 May — Work begins on Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert, designed by Jean-Pierre Cluysenaar

Publications

 * Periodicals
 * Annales parlementaires de Belgique.
 * Messager des sciences historiques (Ghent, Léonard Hebbelynck).
 * La renaissance: Chronique des arts et de la littérature, 7.
 * Revue de Belgique begins publication
 * Revue de Bruxelles reverts to its original title.


 * Monographs and reports
 * Rapport triennial sur la situation de l'instruction primaire en Belgique (Brussels, 1846)


 * Guidebooks and directories
 * A. Hochsteyn, Dictionnaire-postal de la Belgique, 2 vols.
 * A Week in Brussels: The Stranger's Guide to the Capital of Belgium, 3rd edition (London, Edwards and Hughes; Brussels, Edward Browne)


 * Literature
 * Karel Lodewijk Ledeganck, Drie Zustersteden.
 * Jules de Saint-Genois, Le château de Wildenborg, ou les mutinés du siége d'Ostende (1604) (2 vols., Brussels, A. van Dale).

Births

 * 24 January – Isidore Verheyden, painter (died 1905)
 * 28 February – Jean de la Hoese, painter (died 1917)
 * 5 March – Edouard Van Beneden, biologist (died 1910)
 * 27 April – Charles Joseph Van Depoele, electrical engineer (died 1892)
 * 2 June – Émile Storms, soldier (died 1918)
 * 9 August – François J. Terby, astronomer (died 1911)
 * 10 August
 * Eugène Goblet d'Alviella, politician (died 1925)
 * Leon Van der Rest, banker (died 1932)
 * 16 September – Marie Popelin, feminist (died 1913)
 * 19 November – Emile Wauters, painter (died 1933)

Deaths

 * 24 June – Jan Frans Willems (born 1793), writer
 * 1 July – Auguste Duvivier (born 1772), politician
 * 8 October – Henri van der Haert (born 1790), painter
 * 29 October – Jean-Louis van Aelbroeck (born 1755), agronomist