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Events in the year 1856 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Monarch: Leopold I

Head of government: Pierre de Decker

Events

• 1 May – Railway line between Brussels and Ghent completed
• 26 May – Provincial elections
• 10 June – Partial legislative elections return a Catholic majority
• 27 June – Royal order institutes a committee to examine Flemish language grievances.
• 21-23 July – Celebration of the jubilee of Leopold I's swearing-in as monarch

Art and architecture

Paintings

• Charles de Groux, Pilgrimage of St Guido of Anderlecht
• Basile de Loose, The Happy Family
• Charles Leickert, Urban Landscape
• Henri Adolphe Schaep, Working in the Docks at Night
• Adolphe Stache, Elegant Company
• Charles-Philogène Tschaggeny, The Unwilling Traveller
• Antoine Wiertz, Coquette Dress (The Devil's Mirror)

Publications

Periodicals

• Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, Tarlier)
• Annales de pomologie belge et étrangère, vol. 4.
• Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique, vol. 10, edited by Isidore de Stein d'Altenstein
• Annuaire statistique et historique belge, vol. 3, edited by Auguste Scheler
• Annuaire de l'Académie royale de Belgique, vol. 22
• La Belgique, 2
• La Belgique Horticole, vol. 6.
• Bulletin de la Société de médecine de Gand, vol. 23 (Ghent, Leonard Hebbelynck)
• Collection de précis historiques, vol. 5, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J.
• Journal de l'armée belge
• Journal d'horticulture pratique de la Belgique

Official reports and monographs

• Recueil consulaire contenant les rapports commerciaux
• Recueil des lois et arrêtés royaux de la Belgique, vol. 8
• Joseph Jean De Smet (ed.), Recueil des chroniques de Flandre, vol. 3 (Brussels, Commission royale d'Histoire)
• François Joseph Ferdinand Marchal and Edmond Marchal, Histoire politique du règne de l'empereur Charles-Quint (Brussels, H. Tarlier)
• Jean-Joseph Thonissen, La Belgique sous le règne de Léopold I, vol. 2 (Liège, J.-G. Lardinois)

Guidebooks and directories

• Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-book for Travellers in Belgium, on the Rhine, and through Portions of Rhenish Prussia (London, W.J. Adams)

Births

• 5 January – Omer Bodson, soldier (died 1891)
• 15 January – Paul de Favereau, politician (died 1922)
• 28 January – Eva Dell'Acqua, composer (died 1930)
• 5 February – Thomas Louis Heylen, bishop (died 1941)
• 6 February – Gerard Portielje, painter (died 1929)
• 17 February – Joseph Boex, author (died 1940)
• 11 April – Constant Lievens, Jesuit (died 1893)
• 9 June – Auguste de Bavay, brewer (died 1944)
• 12 June – Octave Maus, lawyer (died 1919)
• 18 June – Edward Génicot, Jesuit (died 1900)
• 26 July – Edward Anseele, politician (died 1938)
• 1 August – Frans Hens, artist (died 1928)
• 26 August – Léon Frédéric, painter (died 1940)
• 9 October – Sylvain Dupuis, composer (died 1931)
• 27 October – Albrecht Rodenbach, poet (died 1880)
• 28 December – Henri de Merode-Westerloo, politician (died 1908)

Deaths

• 7 March – Alphonse de Woelmont (born 1799), politician
• 22 November – Albert Prisse (born 1788), diplomat
• 28 December – Auguste Drapiez (born 1778), naturalist

References

1. On Google Books
2. On Wikisource (French)
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6. On Google Books in one binding with volumes 21 and 23.
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9. "Bulletin de la Société de médecine de Gand". 1856.
10. On Google Books
11. vol. 10, vol. 11
12. On Google Books
13. On Google Books
14. On Google Books
15. Recueil des chroniques de Flandre. Vol. 3. Brussels: Commission royale d'Histoire. 1856.
16. "Histoire politique du règne de l'empereur Charles-Quint avec un résumé des événements précurseurs depuis le mariage de Maximilien d'Autriche et de Marie de Bourgogne". Bruxelles, H. Tarlier, c 1856. 1856.
17. On Google Books
18. Bradshaw, George (1856). "Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book for travellers in Belgium, on the Rhine, and through portions of Rhenish Prussia".

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