Events in the year 1839 in

Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ...

Incumbents

Monarch A monarch is a head of stateWebster's II New College DictionarMonarch Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 2001. p. 707. Life tenure, for life or until abdication, and therefore the head of state of a monarchy. A monarch may exercise the highest authority ...

: Leopold I *

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...

Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt Barthélemy Théodore, Count de Theux de Meylandt (26 February 1794 – 21 August 1874) was a Belgian Roman Catholic politician who served as the prime minister of Belgium three times. His family de Theux de Meylandt et Montjardin originated i ...

Events

*19 April – Treaty of London guarantees Belgian independence and neutrality; Luxembourg and Limburg partitioned. *21 May –

Royal Library of Belgium The Royal Library of Belgium (french: Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, nl, Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België, abbreviated ''KBR'' and sometimes nicknamed in French or in Dutch) is the national library of Belgium. The library has a history t ...

opens to the public. *11 June –

Parliamentary elections A general election is a political voting election where generally all or most members of a given political body are chosen. These are usually held for a nation, state, or territory's primary legislative body, and are different from by-elections ( ...

Publications

Maetschappy der Vlaemsche Bibliophilen The Maetschappy der Vlaemsche Bibliophilen, in its later years Maatschappij der Vlaamsche Bibliophilen ("Society of Flemish Bibliophiles") was a text publication society based in Ghent, Belgium. The society was founded by Philip Blommaert and Consta ...

founded by

Constant-Philippe Serrure Constant-Philippe Serrure (1805–1872) was a prolific Belgian historian and collector who taught at Ghent University. He was a founding member and active contributor of the Maetschappy der Vlaemsche Bibliophilen, which published editions of medie ...

and

Philip Blommaert Philip, Esquire Blommaert (Ghent, 24 August 1809 – 14 August 1871) was a Flemish writer. He earned his living as a private scholar and was a friend and comrade of Hendrik Conscience with whom he promoted the use of Dutch in Belgium. In 1834 he ...

as a text publication society to produce editions of medieval Flemish literature. ;Periodicals *''Bibliographie de la Belgique, ou catalogue général de livres belges'' (Brussels, C. Muquardt) *''

Revue de Bruxelles ''Revue de Bruxelles'' was a review published in Brussels from 1837 to 1850. The founding editors were Adolphe Deschamps and Pierre de Decker Pierre (Pieter) Jacques François de Decker (25 January 1812 – 4 January 1891) was a Belgian Roman Cat ...

'', 3. ;Official publications *''Machines à vapeur: Arrêtés et instructions'' (Brussels, Librairie Polytechnique) ;Other works * ''Kronyk van Vlaenderen van 580 tot 1467'' (2 vols, Ghent, Maetschappy der Vlaemsche Bibliophilen). * ''Le promeneur dans Bruxelles et dans ses environs'' (Brussels, Société Typographique Belge) * Mrs. Wemyss Dalrymple, ''The Economist's New Brussels Guide'' (Brussels, W. Todd) *

Louis de Potter Louis de Potter (26 April 1786 – 22 July 1859), was a Belgian journalist, revolutionary, politician and writer. Out of the more than 100 books and pamphlets, one of the most notable works was his famous ''Letter to my Fellow Citizens'' in which ...

, ''Révolution belge, 1828 à 1839: Souvenirs personnels'' (Brussels, Meline, Cans & co.) *

Joseph Jean De Smet Joseph Jean De Smet (1794–1877) was a priest and historian who took part in the Belgian Revolution of 1830. Life De Smet was born in Ghent, in what was then the County of Flanders in the Austrian Netherlands, on 11 December 1794. His secondary an ...

, ''Abrégé de l'histoire de la Belgique'', third edition (Ghent) * Pierre Simons and Gustave Nicolas Joseph de Ridder, ''Le Chemin de fer belge, ou recueil des mémoires et devis pour l'établissement du chemin de fer d'Anvers et Ostende à Cologne, avec embranchement de Bruxelles et de Gand aux frontières de France'', 3rd edition (Brussels, Lacross et Cie.) * Auguste Voisin, ''La bataille de Woeringen: récit historique'' (Brussels, Société des Beaux-Arts)

Art and architecture

Antoine Wiertz Antoine Joseph Wiertz (22 February 1806 – 18 June 1865) was a Belgian painter, sculptor, lithographer and art writer. He is known for his religious, historical, and allegorical works and portraits. He was an eccentric figure who originally was ...

, ''Esmeralda'', ''Quasimodo''

Births

*10 February –

Max Rooses Max Rooses (10 February 1839 – 15 July 1914) was a Belgian writer, literary critic, and curator of the Plantin-Moretus Museum at Antwerp. Rooses was born in Antwerp, and went to school there up to 1858, after which he attended the University of ...

, writer and museum curator (died 1914) *1 March –

Élie Marchal Élie Marchal (1 March 1839, in Wasigny – 19 February 1923, in Gembloux) was a Belgian botanist and mycologist. From 1861 to 1871, he was a middle-school teacher in the communities of Virton, Ath, Visé and Maeseyck. From 1871 to 1879 he was ...

, botanist (died 1923) *28 July –

Isabelle Gatti de Gamond Isabelle Laure Gatti de Gamond (28 July 1839 – 11 October 1905) was a Belgium, Belgian educationalist, feminist, and politician. Life Isabelle Gatti was the second of four daughters born to Giovanni Gatti, an Italian artist, and feminist writ ...

, feminist educator (died 1905) *7 August –

Charles Hermans Charles Hermans (7 August 1839 – 7 December 1924) was a Belgian painter of genre scenes, portraits, landscapes and some still lifes.Henri Maquet Henri Maquet (30 August 1839 – 27 November 1909) was a Belgian architect, best known for his work for King Leopold II of Belgium. Born in Brussels, Maquet trained in Liege, at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, then worked i ...

, architect (died 1909) *18 October – Alphonse Joseph Charles Dubois, naturalist (died 1921) *18 December –

Adolf Daens Adolf Daens (18 December 1839 – 14 June 1907) was a Flemish priest from Aalst. Daens was a Jesuit from 1859 to 1871, but is especially known for his socio-political involvement after he joined the diocesan clergy. He created the Daensist movem ...

, radical priest (died 1907) *26 December – Charles John Seghers, missionary bishop (died 1886)

Deaths

*9 June –

Joseph Paelinck Joseph Paelinck, (20 March 1781 – 19 June 1839) was a painter from the Southern Netherlands. Biography Paelinck attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Ghent) and then with Jacques-Louis David in Paris, where he painted in 1804 ''A Judgment ...

(born 1781), painter *7 August –

Erasme Louis Surlet de Chokier Érasme-Louis, Baron Surlet de Chokier (27 November 1769 – 7 August 1839), born in Liège, was a Belgian politician and, before the accession of Leopold I to the Belgian throne, was the first Regent of Belgium. During the Liège Revolution ...

(born 1769), politician *15 December – Mattheus Ignatius van Bree (born 1773), painter

References

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