Events in the year 1832 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Monarch: Leopold I

Head of government: Félix de Muelenaere (to 20 October); Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella (from 20 October)

1832 in Belgium

Events

8 April – Engelbert Sterckx consecrated as Archbishop of Mechelen

11 July

Order of Leopold established. Provisional postal convention between Belgium and the Office of the Prince of Tour and Taxis signed in Frankfurt am Main. 9 August – Leopold I of Belgium marries Louise of Orléans. 20 October – Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella replaces Félix de Muelenaere as Prime Minister 15 November to 23 December – Siege of Antwerp: Belgian army with French support invests Antwerp Citadel, held by Dutch forces. 23 December – Siege of Antwerp concludes: Dutch forces removed from Antwerp Citadel.

1832 in Belgium

Publications

Almanach de poche de Bruxelles (Brussels, M.-E. Rampelbergh) Annuaire industriel et administratif de la Belgique par province: Province du Brabant (Brussels)

1832 in Belgium

Art and architecture

Paintings

Joseph De Cauwer, Prometheus Delivered by Hercules (now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent)

Births

Date uncertain – Oswald Orth, philologist (died 1920)

2 February – Gédéon Bordiau, architect (died 1904) 8 March – William Henry James Weale, art historian (died 1917) 24 March – Edouard Osy de Zegwaart, politician (died 1900) 21 August – Charles-Joseph de Harlez de Deulin, Orientalist (died 1899) 11 November – Paul Goethals, Archbishop of Calcutta (died 1901) 10 December – Antoon Stillemans, bishop of Ghent (died 1916) 13 December – Polydore de Keyser, Lord Mayor of London (died 1898)

Deaths

Date uncertain – William Cockerill (born 1757/9), industrialist

16 December – Charles van Hulthem (born 1764), politician and bibliophile

References

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Years of the 19th century in Belgium

1830s in Belgium

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