1847 in Belgium

Events in the year 1847 in Belgium.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Leopold I
 * Prime Minister: Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt (to 12 August); Charles Rogier (from 12 August)

Events

 * 7 June – Théâtre des Galeries opens in Brussels.
 * 8 June – Partial legislative elections.
 * 20 June – Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert shopping arcade opened in Brussels.
 * 1 July – Opening of the public exhibition of the products of national industry in Brussels.
 * 9 August – Antwerp–Ghent railway line completed.
 * 27 September – Premonstratensians return to Postel Abbey.

Publications

 * Periodicals
 * Annales parlementaires de Belgique
 * Bulletins de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique (Brussels, M. Hayez), vol. 14.
 * Messager des sciences historiques (Ghent, Léonard Hebbelynck).
 * Revue de Bruxelles


 * Exhibitions
 * J.B.A.M. Jobard, Exposition de l'industrie Belge 1847
 * Catalogue des produits de l'industrie belge admis à l'exposition de 1847


 * Scholarship
 * André Dumont, Mémoire sur les terrains Ardennais et Rhénan de l'Ardenne, du Rhin, du Brabant et du Condros (Brussels, Hayez)
 * Émile Louis Victor de Laveleye, L'Histoire des rois francs


 * Literature
 * Tegenwoordig België (Liberalen, Katholyken en Vlaemsche-beweging) door Een' Noord-Nederlander beoordeeld (Ghent, Snoeck-Ducaju en zoon); reprinted from De Gids.
 * Hippoliet Van Peene, "De Vlaamse Leeuw", song set to music by Karel Miry
 * Hippoliet Van Peene, Willem van Dampierre, historical drama

Art and architecture

 * Buildings
 * Jean-Pierre Cluysenaar's Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert completed


 * Paintings
 * Antoine Wiertz, La Belle Rosine

Births

 * 9 March – Martin Pierre Marsick, composer (died 1924)
 * 9 April – Léon Mignon, sculptor (died 1898)
 * 11 May – Godefroid Kurth, historian (died 1916)
 * 27 August – Édouard Descamps, jurist and politician (died 1933)
 * 31 August – Arthur Verhaegen, architect and politician (died 1917)
 * 3 October – Frantz Jourdain, architect (died 1935)

Deaths

 * 19 March – Karel Lodewijk Ledeganck (born 1805), writer
 * 4 April – Julie du Bosch (born 1797), social reformer