1845 in Belgium

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Decades:	1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s
See also:	Other events of 1845 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1845 in Belgium.

Incumbents[]

• Monarch: Leopold I
• Prime Minister: Jean-Baptiste Nothomb (to 30 July);^[1] Sylvain Van de Weyer (from 30 July)

Events[]

A view of Liège (1845)

• 10 June – partial legislative election
• 16 September – Parliament meets in extraordinary session to debate responses to the failure of the potato crop^[2]
• 10 November – Commercial treaty with the United States signed by Thomas Green Clemson and Adolphe Deschamps in Brussels.^[3]

Publications[]

Periodicals

• Almanach de poche de Bruxelles (Brussels, M. E. Rampelbergh)^[4]
• Almanach royal de Belgique (Brussels, Librairie Polytechnique)^[5]
• Annales de la Société royale des beaux-arts et de littérature de Gand^[6]
• Annales parlementaires de Belgique, part 1,^[7] part 2.^[8]
• Le bibliophile belge begins publication.^[9]
• Bulletin de l'Académie royale de médecine de Belgique, vol. 4^[10]
• Compte-rendu des séances de la commission royale d'histoire, vols. 9^[11] and 10^[12]
• Journal de l'Instruction publique begins publication.^[13]
• Messager des sciences historiques (Ghent, Léonard Hebbelynck)^[14]
• Nouvelle Revue de Bruxelles^[15]
• La renaissance: Chronique des arts et de la littérature, 6.^[16]

Studies and reports

• Désiré Arnould, Situation administrative et financière des monts-de-piété en Belgique (Brussels, Imprimerie du Moniteur Belge)^[17]
• Giovanni Arrivabene, Sur la condition des laboureurs et des ouvriers belges (Brussels, Meline, Cans & co.)^[18]
• Adolphe Jullien, Notes diverses sur les chemins de fer: en Angleterre, en Belgique et en France (Paris, Carilian-Goeury & V. Dalmont)^[19]

Others

• Les Belges illustres, vol. 3^[20]
• Hendrik Conscience, De Geschiedenis van België (Antwerp, J.-E. Buschmann, and Brussels, Alex Jamar).^[21]
• Lieven Everwyn, Korte levensschets van Jacob Van Artevelde (Ghent)^[22]
• , La Belgique et les Belges depuis 1830 (Paris, W. Couquebert)^[23]

Births[]

• 24 January – Albert Desenfans, sculptor (died 1938)
• 27 January – Karel Ooms, painter (died 1900)
• 9 February – Henri Gondry, colonial administrator (died 1889)
• 25 February – Eugène Goossens, père, conductor (died 1906)
• 5 March – Alphonse Hasselmans, composer (died 1912)
• 13 June – Alphonse-Jules Wauters, writer and editor (died 1916)
• 24 June – Georges Nagelmackers, engineer and entrepreneur (died 1905)
• 9 August – Xavier Mellery, painter (died 1921)
• 17 November – Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, mother of Albert I of Belgium (died 1912)
• 2 December – Évariste Carpentier, painter (died 1922)

Deaths[]

• 3 January – Philippus Jacobus Brepols (born 1778), entrepreneur
• 23 March – Dominique II Berger (born 1780), carillonneur
• 20 July – Alexandre Artôt (born 1815), violinist

References[]

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