1852 in Belgium

Events in the year 1852 in Belgium.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Leopold I
 * Head of government: Charles Rogier (to 31 October); Henri de Brouckère (from 31 October)

Events

 * 12 February – State visit of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert to Belgium.
 * 15 April – Postal convention between Belgium and the Office of the Prince of Tour and Taxis signed in Brussels.
 * 24 May – Provincial elections
 * 8 June – Partial legislative elections of 1852.
 * 22 August – Franco-Belgian conventions on intellectual property and tariffs.
 * 31 October – Henri de Brouckère replaces Charles Rogier as Prime Minister.
 * 7 November – Théodore de Montpellier consecrated as bishop of Liège in succession to Cornelius van Bommel.

Publications

 * Periodicals
 * Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, Librairie Polytechnique)
 * La Belgique Horticole, vol. 2.


 * Guidebooks and directories
 * Belgium and the Rhine (London, David Bogue).
 * Guide pittoresque du voyageur en Belgique: Itinéraire artistique, industriel et manufacturier (Guide Richard, 7th edition; Paris, L. Maison)
 * Murray's Handbook for Belgium and the Rhine (London, John Murray)


 * Other
 * Collection des discours prononcés aux distributions de prix des athénées royaux (Tournai, Bureau du Moniteur de l'Enseignement)
 * Henri Alexis Brialmont, Considérations politiques et militaires sur la Belgique, vol. 3 (Brussels, M. Hayez)
 * Jules de Saint-Genois, Feuillets détachés

Art and architecture

 * Paintings
 * Louis Gallait, Gypsy Woman with Two Children

Births

 * 24 January – Alexander Struys, painter (died 1941)
 * 7 March – Constant de Deken, missionary (died 1896)
 * 25 March – Gérard Cooreman, politician (died 1926)
 * 27 March – Jan van Beers, artist (died 1927)
 * 10 April – Arthur Vierendeel, engineer (died 1940)
 * 21 April – Edward Maene, sculptor (died 1931)
 * 9 June – Frans Van Kuyck, artist (died 1915)
 * 12 July – Henry Moeller, review editor (died 1918)
 * 31 August – Joris Helleputte, architect and politician (died 1925)
 * 20 September – Édouard Empain, engineer-entrepreneur (died 1929)
 * 2 December – Lucien Bia, soldier (died 1892)

Deaths

 * 28 January – Augustin Dumon-Dumortier (born 1791), industrialist and politician
 * 7 April – Cornelius van Bommel (born 1790), bishop of Liège
 * 6 May – Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens (born 1777), theatre director
 * 17 October – Henri Decaisne (born 1799), painter