1862 in Belgium

Events in the year 1862 in Belgium.

Incumbents

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

Events

 * Chimay Brewery founded
 * Belgian Catholic Mission to China established


 * March
 * 3 March – Leopold I of Belgium writes a letter to the dean of Windsor expressing a desire to be buried alongside his first wife, Princess Charlotte of Wales.
 * 29 March – Two members of a criminal gang guillotined in Charleroi.


 * April
 * 11 April – Belgian Navy abolished.


 * May
 * 26 May – Provincial elections


 * July
 * 23 July – Anglo-Belgian Treaty of Commerce and Navigation signed.


 * September
 * 16 September – Victor Hugo's Brussels publisher, Albert Lacroix, holds a banquet to celebrate the success of Les Misérables

Architecture

 * Loppem Castle (designed by E. W. Pugin and Jean-Baptiste Bethune) completed

Publications

 * Periodicals and series
 * Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, H. Tarlier)
 * La Belgique Horticole, vol. 12.
 * Collection de précis historiques, vol. 11, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J.
 * L'Education de la Femme begins publication
 * Recueil des lois et arrêtés royaux de Belgique, vol. 49 (Brussels, Imprimerie du Moniteur Belge)
 * Revue belge et étrangère, vol. 13.
 * De Vlaemsche school: tijdschrift voor kunsten, letteren, wetenschappen, ouheidskunde en kunstnyverheid, vol. 8.


 * Monographs and reports
 * Robert Scott Burn, Notes of an Agricultural Tour in Belgium, Holland, & the Rhine (London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green)
 * Louis Galesloot, Procès de François Anneessens, doyen du corps des métiers de Bruxelles, vol. 1 (Brussels and The Hague)


 * Literature and the arts
 * Maria Doolaeghe, Sinte Godelieve, Vlaemsche legende uit de XIde eeuw
 * Guido Gezelle, Gedichten, Gezangen en Gebeden
 * Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, published in Brussels, then in Paris and Leipzig by A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven & Cie.
 * William Henry James Weale, Restauration des monuments publics en Belgique, second edition

Births

 * 22 May — Joseph Amerlinck, engineer (died 1915)
 * 19 June – Paul Saintenoy, architect (died 1952)
 * 29 August – Maurice Maeterlinck, author (died 1949)
 * 10 December – Georges Hulin de Loo, art historian (died 1945)

Deaths

 * 29 January – Louis-Joseph Seutin (born 1793), surgeon and senator
 * 10 March – Pieter van Hanselaere (born 1786), painter
 * 5 August – Felix de Muelenaere (born 1793), Catholic politician
 * 8 December – Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen (born 1796), liberal politician