1854 in Belgium

Events in the year 1854 in Belgium.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Leopold I
 * Head of government: Henri de Brouckère

Events

 * 27 February – Commercial treaty with France on tariffs, transit and navigation for five years.
 * 22 May – Provincial elections
 * 13 June – Partial legislative elections of 1854

Publications

 * Periodicals
 * Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, H. Tarlier)
 * Annales de l'Académie d'archéologie de Belgique, vol. 11 (Antwerp, Froment)
 * Annales de pomologie belge et étrangère, vol. 2.
 * Isidore de Stein d'Altenstein (ed.), Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique, vol. 8 (Brussels, Auguste Decq and C. Muquardt)
 * Bulletins de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 21 (Brussels, Hayez)
 * Collection de précis historiques, vol. 5, edited by Edouard Terwecoren
 * Messager des sciences historiques (Ghent, L. Hebbelynck)


 * Books
 * Hendrik Conscience, Tales of Flemish life (Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature 3; Edinburgh, Thomas Constable)
 * Charles Meerts, Dictionnaire Géographique et Statistique du Royaume de Belgique (Brussels, H. Goemaere)
 * Jules de Saint-Genois, Historische verhalen
 * Belgique industrielle: vues des établissements industriels de la Belgique (Brussels, Jules Géruzet)
 * Exposition générale des Beaux-Arts, 1854: Catalogue explicatif (Brussels, G. Stapleaux)

Art and architecture

 * Paintings
 * Antoine Wiertz, The Premature Burial

Births

 * 22 April – Henri La Fontaine, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1943)
 * 15 May – Émile Van Arenbergh, magistrate and writer (died 1934)
 * 25 May – Joseph Van den Gheyn, Jesuit (died 1913)
 * 2 July – Achille Gerste, Jesuit linguist (died 1920)
 * 18 July – Émile Dossin de Saint-Georges, general (died 1936)
 * 22 October – Édouard de Laveleye, engineer (died 1938)
 * 31 October – Rémy Cogghe, painter (died 1935)

Deaths

 * 28 February – Zoé de Gamond (born 1806), feminist
 * 17 September – Joseph De Cauwer (born 1779), painter
 * 16 October – Goswin de Stassart (born 1780), politician