1848 in Belgium

Events in the year 1848 in Belgium.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Leopold I
 * Head of government: Charles Rogier

Events

 * 24 February – Belgium accedes to the 1841 Treaty for the Suppression of the African Slave Trade.
 * 4 March – Karl Marx deported from Belgium
 * 29 March – Risquons-Tout incident: Belgian troops disperse a revolutionary republican force entering the country from France.
 * 13 June – General election
 * 12 July - Provincial elections
 * 8 October – Convention with the French Second Republic and the Kingdom of Prussia regulating customs declarations on international rail services signed in Brussels.
 * 3 November – Postal convention with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland signed in Brussels.

Publications

 * Periodicals
 * Annales de l'Académie Royale d'Archéologie de Belgique, 5
 * Bulletin de l'Académie Royale de Médecine de Belgique, 7
 * Journal d'horticulture pratique ou Guide des amateurs et jardiniers, 5 (Brussels, F. Parent)
 * Pasicrisie belge: recueil général de la jurisprudence, 3rd series, part 1 (Brussels, Meline, Cans & co.)
 * Revue belge de numismatique et de sigillographie, 4


 * Books
 * Dystorie van Saladine, edited by Constant-Philippe Serrure (Ghent, Maetschappy der Vlaemsche Bibliophilen, 1848)
 * Jean-Baptiste Malou, Recherches historiques et critiques sur le véritable auteur de l'Imitation de Jésus-Christ (Brussels, 1848).
 * Charles Henri Marcellis, Considérations sur les révolutions de 1848, au point de vue belge (Brussels, Meline, Cans & co.)
 * C. Poplimont, La Belgique depuis mil huit cent trente (Brussels and Leipzig, Mayer & Flatau)

Art and architecture

 * Paintings
 * Louis Gallait, The Fisherman's Family
 * Sculpture
 * Guillaume Geefs's Le génie du mal installed in Liège Cathedral
 * Eugène Simonis, Equestrian statue of Godrfey of Bouillon, Place Royale, Brussels

Births

 * 10 February – Anna Boch, painter (died 1936)
 * 25 April – Alphonse van Gèle, soldier (died 1939)
 * 14 June – Théophile Lybaert, artist (died 1927)
 * 22 June – Julien Liebaert, politician (died 1930)
 * 3 July – Marie Joseph Charles, 6th Duke d'Ursel, politician (died 1903)
 * 16 August – Marie de Villermont, writer (died 1925)
 * 7 October – Georges Croegaert, painter (died 1923)
 * 8 October – Pierre De Geyter, composer (died 1932)

Deaths

 * 23 March – Julien-Joseph Ducorron (born 1770), painter
 * 24 April – François van Campenhout (born 1779), opera singer and composer
 * 17 May – Jan Frans Eliaerts (born 1761), painter
 * 1 October – François-René Boussen (born 1774), bishop of Bruges