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 Princess Charlotte of Wales may refer to: * Princess Charlotte of Wales (1796–1817), the only child of George, Prince of Wales, later King George IV of the United Kingdom ** Princess Charlotte of Wales (1812 EIC ship), a ship named after the pri ...

.Alain de Gueldre et al., ''Kroniek van België'' (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987). * 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 The Anglo-Belgian Treaty of Commerce and Navigation was a free trade agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Kingdom of Belgium, signed on 23 July 1862. It was the first such treaty that rather than being time-lim ...

signed. ;September * 16 September –

Victor Hugo Victor-Marie Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. He is considered to be one of the great ...

's Brussels publisher, Albert Lacroix, holds a banquet to celebrate the success of '' Les Misérables''

Architecture

Loppem Castle Loppem Castle ( nl, Kasteel van Loppem) is a mansion situated in Loppem in the municipality of Zedelgem, near Bruges in West Flanders, in the Flemish Region of Belgium. Unusually, it preserves its original architecture and interior decoration. T ...

(designed by

E. W. Pugin Edward Welby Pugin (11 March 1834 – 5 June 1875) was an English architect, the eldest son of architect Augustus Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin and Louisa Barton and part of the Pugin & Pugin family of church architects. His father was ...

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 Edouard Terwecoren (1815–1872) was a Belgian Jesuit author. Life Terwecoren was born in Vilvoorde on 17 June 1815. He entered the Jesuit novitiate in Nivelles in 1836. He taught at the Jesuit college in Namur and St Joseph College, Aalst, befor ...

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 Robert Scott Burn (14 February 1825 – 31 January 1901) was a Scottish engineer and author, known as prolific writer between 1850 and 1860 on a wide range of subjects ranging from agriculture, building construction and mechanical engineering to ...

, ''Notes of an Agricultural Tour in Belgium, Holland, & the Rhine'' (London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green) *

Louis Galesloot Louis Galesloot (1821–1884) was a Belgian archivist, historian and archaeologist. Life Galesloot was born in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek on 18 December 1821, one of the eight children of Eugène Galesloot and his wife.''Inventaris van het archief van Lo ...

, ''Procès de François Anneessens, doyen du corps des métiers de Bruxelles'', vol. 1 (Brussels and The Hague) ;Literature and the arts *

Maria Doolaeghe Maria Doolaeghe (25 October 1803 – 7 April 1884) was a Flemish writer. Bibliography * ''Nederduitsche letteroefeningen'' (1834) * ''Madelieven'' (1840) * ''De avondlamp'' (1850) * ''Sinte Godelieve, Vlaemsche legende uit de XIde eeuw'' (1862) ...

, ''Sinte Godelieve, Vlaemsche legende uit de XIde eeuw'' * Guido Gezelle, ''Gedichten, Gezangen en Gebeden'' *

, '' Les Misérables'', published in Brussels, then in Paris and Leipzig by A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven & Cie. *

William Henry James Weale William Henry James Weale (8 March 1832 – 26 April 1917) was a British art historian who lived and worked most of his life in Bruges and was one of the first to research the Early Netherlandish painting (then better known as "Flemish Primitive ...

, ''Restauration des monuments publics en Belgique'', second editionRestauration des monuments
on Google Books.

Births

* 22 May — Joseph Amerlinck, engineer (died 1915) * 19 June –

Paul Saintenoy Paul Saintenoy (19 June 1862 – 18 July 1952) was a Belgian architect, teacher, architectural historian, and writer. Family ] Born in 1862 in Ixelles, a municipality of Brussels, Belgium, Saintenoy was the son of the architect Gustave Sainte ...

, 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 Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen (5 September 1796 – 8 December 1862) was a Belgian lawyer and liberal politician, known as the founder of the Free University of Brussels. He was twice chairman of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives (from 28 June ...

(born 1796), liberal politician

References

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