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. 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 signed.
September
16 September – Victor Hugo's Brussels publisher, Albert Lacroix, holds a banquet to celebrate the success of Les Misérables
Architecture
Loppem Castle (designed by E. W. Pugin 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 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, Notes of an Agricultural Tour in Belgium, Holland, & the Rhine (London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green) Louis Galesloot, Procès de François Anneessens, doyen du corps des métiers de Bruxelles, vol. 1 (Brussels and The Hague)
Literature and the arts
Maria Doolaeghe, Sinte Godelieve, Vlaemsche legende uit de XIde eeuw
Guido Gezelle, Gedichten, Gezangen en Gebeden
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, published in Brussels, then in Paris and Leipzig by A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven & Cie. William Henry James Weale, Restauration des monuments publics en Belgique, second edition
Births
19 June – Paul Saintenoy, architect (died 1952) 29 August – Maurice Maeterlinck, author (died 1949) 10 December – Georges Hulin de Loo, art historian (died 1945)