1855 in Belgium

Events in the year 1855 in Belgium.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Leopold I
 * Head of government: Henri de Brouckère (to 30 March); Pierre de Decker (from 30 March)

Events

 * 21 January – Fire at the Monnaie Theatre.
 * 30 March – Pierre de Decker succeeds Henri de Brouckère as Prime Minister.
 * 9 April – Royal Belgian Entomological Society founded.
 * 12 June – Elections to the Senate
 * 29 June – Telegraphic convention between Belgium, France and Prussia signed in Berlin.
 * Collège Saint-François-Xavier established in Verviers.

Publications

 * Periodicals
 * Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, H. Tarlier)
 * Annales de pomologie belge et étrangère, vol. 3.
 * Annuaire statistique et historique belge, vol. 2, edited by Auguste Scheler (Brussels, Kiessling-Schnee & Cie.)
 * La Belgique Horticole, vol. 5.
 * Bulletin de la Commission Centrale de Statistique (Brussels, M. Hayez)
 * Collection de précis historiques, vol. 6, edited by Edouard Terwecoren
 * Le Guide musical begins publication with Schott frères
 * Messager des sciences historiques (Ghent, L. Hebbelynck)
 * Pasicrisie ou recueil général de la jurisprudence des cours de France et de Belgique (Brussels, E. Bruylant., 1855)
 * Pasinomie: collection complète des lois, décrets, ordonnances, arrêtés et règlements généraux, edited by M. Ranwet (Brussels, Meline, Cans et Cie.)
 * Vaderlandsch museum voor Nederduitsche letterkunde, oudheid en geschiedenis begins publication, edited by Constant-Philippe Serrure.


 * Books
 * Hendrik Conscience, The Lion of Flanders, English translation (London, Lambert & co.)
 * Hendrik Conscience, Tales of Old Flanders: Count Hugo of Craenhove and Wooden Clara (London, Lambert & co.)
 * Walter Scott, France and Belgium (Edinburgh, Adam & Charles Black)
 * Jean-Joseph Thonissen, La Belgique sous le règne de Léopold I, vol. 1 (Liège, J.-G. Lardinois)

Art and architecture

 * Buildings
 * Gustave Saintenoy, Quartier Leopold railway station, Brussels


 * Paintings
 * Jean Carolus, Baby's First Steps
 * Jean Carolus, The Finishing Touches
 * Emile De Cauwer, Church Interior
 * Henri Joseph Dillens, The Bird's Nest
 * Charles Leickert, Coastal scene with fisherfolk
 * Henri Leys, Home-Coming
 * Alfred Stevens, The Painter and His Model
 * Ildephonse Stocquart, Fleeing the Storm
 * François Stroobant, Courtyard of the Palace of Margaret of Austria

Births

 * 14 March – Émile Wangermée, colonial officer (died 1924)
 * 16 April – Edouard de Jans, painter (died 1919)
 * 3 May – Amaat Joos, priest (died 1937)
 * 9 May – Emilie Claeys, feminist (died 1943)
 * 10 May – Anthony Bowlby, soldier (died 1929)
 * 21 May – Émile Verhaeren, poet (died 1916)
 * 9 July – Jakob Smits, painter (died 1928)
 * 16 July – Georges Rodenbach, author (died 1898)
 * 21 August – Auguste Toubeau, trade unionist (died 1912)
 * 1 September – Eugène Boch, painter (died 1941)
 * 3 September – Emilius Seghers, bishop of Ghent (died 1927)
 * 4 September – Théophile Alexis Durand, botanist (died 1912)
 * 6 October – Alexandre Delcommune, soldier (died 1922)
 * 22 December – Victor Deguise, general (died 1925)

Deaths

 * 27 February – Louis Lambillotte (born 1796), Jesuit musicologist
 * 24 April – Angelus de Baets (born 1793), painter
 * 13 November – James Oliver Van de Velde (born 1795), bishop
 * 20 December – Pierre-Ernest Dams (born 1794), politician