1858 in Belgium

Events in the year 1858 in Belgium.

Incumbents

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

Events

 * 24 May – Provincial elections
 * 17 July – New commercial treaty agreed with the United States.
 * 2 August – Bourse of Antwerp burns down.
 * September – International congress on intellectual property held in Brussels.

Publications

 * Periodicals
 * Almanach de poche de Bruxelles (Brussels, Tircher)
 * Annales de pomologie belge et étrangère, vol. 6.
 * Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique, vol. 12, edited by Isidore de Stein d'Altenstein
 * Annuaire statistique et historique belge, vol. 5, edited by Auguste Scheler
 * Annuaire de l'Académie royale de Belgique, vol. 24
 * La Belgique, 5
 * La Belgique Horticole, vol. 8.
 * Bulletin et annales de l'Académie d'archéologie de Belgique, vol. 5
 * Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences et belles-lettres de Bruxelles, vol. 5 (Brussels, Hayez).
 * Collection de précis historiques, vol. 7, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J.
 * Journal de l'armée belge, vol. 15
 * Journal d'horticulture pratique de la Belgique


 * Official reports and monographs
 * Recueil consulaire contenant les rapports commerciaux
 * Recueil des lois et arrêtés royaux de la Belgique, vol. 10


 * Other works
 * C. H. Barlet, Géographie industrielle et commerciale de la Belgique (Mechelen, E.-F. van Velsen)
 * Hendrik Conscience, De omwenteling van 1830 (Antwerp, J. P. van Dieren)
 * Alexandre Henne, Histoire du règne de Charles-Quint en Belgique (Brussels and Leipzig, Émile Flatau)
 * Jan van Ruusbroec, Dat Boec van den gheesteleken Tabernacule, edited by Jean-Baptist David, 2 volumes (Ghent, Maetschappy der Vlaemsche Bibliophilen).
 * Jean-Joseph Thonissen, La Belgique sous le règne de Léopold I, vol. 4 (Liège, J.-G. Lardinois)
 * Alphonse Wauters, Bruxelles et ses faubourgs: guide de l'étranger (Brussels, C. W. Froment)

Births

 * 8 April – Eugène van Rechem, bishop (died 1943)
 * 16 April – Philippe Wolfers, jeweller (died 1929)
 * 7 May – Charles Liebrechts, explorer (died 1938)
 * 21 June – Léon Roget, colonial officer (died 1909)
 * 12 September – Fernand Khnopff, painter (died 1921)
 * 19 October – George Albert Boulenger, zoologist (died 1937)
 * 4 November – Jacques de Lalaing, artist (died 1917)

Deaths

 * 22 February – Noël Delfosse (born 1801), politician
 * 14 March – Henri Guillaume Galeotti (born 1814), botanist and geologist
 * 22 April – François Joseph Ferdinand Marchal (born 1780), archivist
 * 29 April – Charles d'Hane de Steenhuyze (born 1787), politician
 * 15 May – Jacques Coghen (born 1791), politician
 * 27 June – Coralie van den Cruyce (born 1796), writer