1857 in Belgium

Events in the year 1857 in Belgium.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Leopold I
 * Head of government: Pierre de Decker (to 9 November); Charles Rogier (from 9 November)

Events

 * Jean Neuhaus opens an apothecary shop in Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert
 * 28 May – Liberal protests near the Palace of the Nation against a proposed "convents" law that would give the Catholic Church more power to manage charitable foundations.
 * 27 October – Municipal elections, giving a liberal victory.
 * 30 October – Pierre de Decker's ministry resigns.
 * 10 December – Snap legislative elections, giving a liberal victory.

Publications

 * Periodicals
 * Almanach de poche de Bruxelles (Brussels, M. E. Rampelbergh)
 * Almanach du commerce et de l'industrie (Brussels, H. Tarlier)
 * Annales de pomologie belge et étrangère, vol. 5.
 * Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique, vol. 11, edited by Isidore de Stein d'Altenstein
 * Annuaire statistique et historique belge, vol. 4, edited by Auguste Scheler
 * Annuaire de l'Académie royale de Belgique, vol. 23
 * La Belgique, 4
 * La Belgique Horticole, vol. 7.
 * Bulletin de l'Académie royale de médecine de Belgique, ser. 2, vol. 1.
 * Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences et belles-lettres de Bruxelles, vol. 3 (Brussels, Hayez).
 * Collection de précis historiques, vol. 6, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J.
 * Journal de l'armée belge, vols. 13-14
 * Journal d'horticulture pratique de la Belgique
 * De toekomst: tijdschrift voor opvoeding en onderwijs begins publication


 * Official reports and monographs
 * Recueil consulaire contenant les rapports commerciaux
 * Recueil des lois et arrêtés royaux de la Belgique, vol. 9
 * Joseph Jean De Smet, Vie de Saint-Liévin, patron de Gand et apôtre du pays d'Alost (Ghent)
 * Jean-Joseph Thonissen, La Belgique sous le règne de Léopold I, vol. 3 (Liège, J.-G. Lardinois)


 * Guidebooks and directories
 * David Bogue, Belgium and the Rhine (London, Lee and Carter).


 * Literature
 * Frans de Cort, Liederen, eerste reeks (Antwerp)

Births

 * 12 January – Léon de Witte de Haelen, general (died 1933)
 * 21 February – Jules de Trooz, politician (died 1907)
 * 18 March – César Thomson, violinist (died 1931)
 * 8 April – Marie Louise De Meester, religious foundress (died 1928)
 * 27 April – Louis-Napoléon Chaltin, colonial officer (died 1933)
 * 11 August – Cyriaque Gillain, general (died 1931)
 * 25 August – Louis-Gustave Amelot, engineer (died 1884)
 * 28 August – Auguste Goffinet, courtier (died 1927)

Deaths

 * 4 January – François-Jean Wyns de Raucour (born 1779), politician
 * 7 February – Félix de Mérode (born 1791), politician
 * 28 February – André Dumont (born 1809), geologist
 * 3 May – Jean Baptiste Smits (born 1792), politician