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← 1836 1835 1834 1837 in Belgium → 1838 1839 1840
Decades:	1830s 1840s 1850s
See also:	Other events of 1837 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1837 in Belgium.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Leopold I
• Prime Minister: Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt

Events

• 21 March – Flooding in Burcht and Stabroek.
• 13 June – Parliamentary elections
• 19 June – Charles van Hulthem's book collection bought by the state; the core of the collection of the Royal Library of Belgium.
• 21 August – Victor Hugo travels by train for the first time while visiting Belgium.
• 4 October – Société Civile pour l'Agrandissement et l'Embellissement de Bruxelles established, to develop the Leopold Quarter in Brussels.
• 12 November – Parliament approves 10 million franc government loan to build railways.
• 28 December – Pastoral letter of Belgian bishops deprecates Catholic membership of masonic lodges.

Publications

Periodicals

• Almanach de poche de Bruxelles (Brussels, M.-E. Rampelbergh)
• Annuaire du clergé catholique du royaume de Belgique (Brussels, Veuve J.-J. Vanderborght)
• Journal historique et littéraire, vol. 4 (Liège, P. Kersten).
• Messager des sciences et des arts de la Belgique, vol. 5 (Ghent, Léonard Hebbelynck)
• Revue de Bruxelles begins publication

Reference works

• Pasinomie, ou Collection complète des lois, décrets, arrêtés et règlements généraux qui peuvent être invoqués en Belgique
• Dictionnaire des hommes de lettres, des savans et des artistes de la Belgique (Brussels, Établissement Géographique)

Non-fiction

• Joseph Jean De Smet (ed.), Recueil des chroniques de Flandre, vol. 1.
• Johann Wilhelm Löbell, Lettres sur la Belgique (Brussels)
• Félix Victor Goethals, Lectures relatives à l'histoire des sciences, des arts, des lettres, des moeurs, et de la politique en Belgique, et dans les pays limitrophes, vol. 1 (Brussels, Imprimerie de Vandooren for the author).

Fiction

• Jules de Saint-Genois, La cour du duc Jean IV, chronique brabançonne, 1418-1421

Births

• 26 February – Charles Woeste, politician (died 1922)
• 24 March – Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders (died 1905)
• 14 June – Frans Jozef Peter van den Branden, writer (died 1922)
• 5 December – Camille Janssen, colonial governor (died 1926)
• 27 December – Émile de Borchgrave, diplomat (died 1917)

Deaths

• 27 February – Françoise-Jeanne Ridderbosch (born 1754), artist
• 17 April – Édouard de Walckiers (born 1758), banker
• 8 May – James Cockerill (born 1787), industrialist
• 17 August – Charles Felix Van Quickenborne (born 1788), founder of Saint Louis University.

References

1. Georges-Henri Dumont, Chronologie de la Belgique: De 1830 à nos jours (Le Cri, 2017).
2. ^ Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987).
3. "Nouvel almanach de poche, de Bruxelles, pour ... ; contenant les indications les plus utiles aux étrangers et aux habitans". 1837.
4. On Google Books
5. On Google Books.
6. On Google Books
7. July to September, October to December
8. vol. 15, vol. 16
9. On Internet Archive
10. Recueil des chroniques de Flandre. Vol. 1. Brussels: Commission royale d'Histoire. 1837.
11. On Google Books.
12. On Google Books

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