1850 in Belgium

Events in the year 1850 in Belgium.

Incumbents

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

Events

 * Sint-Lodewijkscollege established in Lokeren
 * 14 February – Treaty of commerce and navigation with the Russian Empire signed in Berlin.
 * 5 May – National Bank of Belgium founded
 * 27 May - Provincial elections
 * 11 June – Partial legislative elections
 * 25 July – Scourmont Priory established
 * 4 August – Mediation by the King of the Belgians leads to the restoration of diplomatic relations between Spain and the United Kingdom.
 * 25 September – King Leopold lays the first stone of the Congress Column in Brussels
 * 31 October – Treaty of commerce and navigation with Bolivia signed in Brussels

Publications

 * Periodicals
 * Almanach de poche de Bruxelles
 * Almanach royal officiel
 * Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique, edited by Isidore de Stein d'Altenstein (Brussels, Muquardt)
 * Recueil des lois et arrêtés royaux de la Belgique, vol. 21 (Brussels, E. Devroye).
 * Revue de Bruxelles ceases publication


 * Books
 * Félix Victor Goethals, Dictionnaire généalogique et héraldique des familles nobles du Royaume de Belgique, vol. 3.
 * Adolphe Joanne, Voyage en Orient (Ixelles lez Bruxelles, Delevingne & Callewaert)
 * Edouard Mary, Epîtres en vers sur la Belgique.
 * Jean-Joseph Thonissen, Le Socialisme et ses promesses (2 volumes)
 * Pierre-Joseph van Beneden, Recherches sur la faune littorale de Belgique: Les vers cestoïdes ou acotyles (Brussels, Hayez)

Art and architecture

 * Paintings
 * Jan August Hendrik Leys, Divine Service in Holland

Births

 * 5 January – Theodoor Verstraete, artist (died 1907)
 * 30 January – Emma De Vigne, painter (died 1898)
 * 20 February – Eugène Joors, painter (died 1910)
 * 20 March – Marietta Hannon Rousseau, mycologist (died 1926)
 * 14 April – Fredegand Cogels, politician (died 1932)
 * 9 May – Fernande de Mertens, painter (died 1924)
 * 8 October – Léon Herbo, painter (died 1907)
 * 4 November – Jules Bilmeyer, architect (died 1920)
 * 17 November – Hippolyte d'Ursel, politician and historian (died 1937)
 * 29 December – Frans Van Leemputten, painter (died 1914)

Deaths

 * 29 April – Charles de Brouckère (born 1757), politician
 * 5 September – Paul-François Huart-Chapel (born 1770), industrialist and politician
 * 11 October – Queen Louise (born 1812)