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Events in the year 1837 in Belgium.
Incumbents
Events
- 21 March – Flooding in Burcht and Stabroek.[2]: 628
- 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.[2]: 628
- 21 August – Victor Hugo travels by train for the first time while visiting Belgium.[2]: 628
- 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.[2]: 628
- 28 December – Pastoral letter of Belgian bishops deprecates Catholic membership of masonic lodges.[2]: 628
Publications
- Periodicals
- Almanach de poche de Bruxelles (Brussels, M.-E. Rampelbergh)[3]
- Annuaire du clergé catholique du royaume de Belgique (Brussels, Veuve J.-J. Vanderborght)[4]
- Journal historique et littéraire, vol. 4 (Liège, P. Kersten).[5]
- Messager des sciences et des arts de la Belgique, vol. 5 (Ghent, Léonard Hebbelynck)[6]
- Revue de Bruxelles begins publication[7]
- Reference works
- Pasinomie, ou Collection complète des lois, décrets, arrêtés et règlements généraux qui peuvent être invoqués en Belgique[8]
- Dictionnaire des hommes de lettres, des savans et des artistes de la Belgique (Brussels, Établissement Géographique)[9]
- Non-fiction
- Joseph Jean De Smet (ed.), Recueil des chroniques de Flandre, vol. 1.[10]
- Johann Wilhelm Löbell, Lettres sur la Belgique (Brussels)[11]
- 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).[12]
- 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
- ↑ Georges-Henri Dumont, Chronologie de la Belgique: De 1830 à nos jours (Le Cri, 2017).
- 1 2 3 4 5 Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987).
- ↑ "Nouvel almanach de poche, de Bruxelles, pour ... ; contenant les indications les plus utiles aux étrangers et aux habitans". 1837.
- ↑ On Google Books
- ↑ On Google Books.
- ↑ On Google Books
- ↑ July to September, October to December
- ↑ vol. 15, vol. 16
- ↑ On Internet Archive
- ↑ Recueil des chroniques de Flandre. Vol. 1. Brussels: Commission royale d'Histoire. 1837.
- ↑ On Google Books.
- ↑ On Google Books
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