← 1840 1839 1838 1841 in Belgium → 1842 1843 1844
Decades:	1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s
See also:	Other events of 1841 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1841 in Belgium.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Leopold I
• Prime Minister: Joseph Lebeau (to 13 April); Jean-Baptiste Nothomb (from 13 April)^[1]

Events

• 13 April – Nothomb ministry comes to power.
• 8 June – Parliamentary elections.
• 15 July – Exposition des Produits le l'Industrie Nationale opens in Brussels.^[2]
• 19 September – Founding of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium.

Publications

Periodicals

• Almanach de la cour^[3]
• Almanach royal de Belgique (Brussels, Librairie Polytechnique)^[4]
• Annuaire de l'Académie royale des sciences et belles-letres de Bruxelles^[5]
• Annuaire dramatique de la Belgique^[6]
• Bulletins de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique^[7]
• Journal de Bruxelles begins publication.
• Messager des sciences historiques^[8]
• La renaissance: Chronique des arts et de la littérature, 2.^[9]
• Revue belge, vol. 17 (Liège, A. Jeunehomme)^[10]
• Revue de Bruxelles^[11]

Monographs and reports

• Joseph Jean De Smet (ed.), Recueil des chroniques de Flandre, vol. 2 (Brussels, Commission royale d'Histoire)^[12]
• Xavier Heuschling, Essai sur la statistique générale de la Belgique, 2nd edition (Brussels, Etablissement Géographique)^[13]
• François Joseph Ferdinand Marchal, Histoire des Pays-Bas autrichiens (Brussels, Deprez-Parent)^[14]
• M. E. Perrot, Revue de l'exposition des produits le l'industrie nationale en 1841 (Brussels)^[15]

Guide books

• A. Ferrier, Guide pittoresque du voyageur en Belgique (3rd edition, Brussels, Société Belge de Librairie)^[16]

Art and architecture

Greenhouse in the Botanical Garden of Liège (1841)

Paintings

• Louis Gallait, The Abdication of Charles V
• Antoine Wiertz, La Chute des Anges rebelles

Buildings

• Jean Baptiste De Baets, St. Stefanus, Ghent
• Greenhouses of the Botanical Garden of Liège^[17]

Births

• 25 January – Cornelius Van Leemputten, painter (died 1902)
• 12 July – César De Paepe, syndicalist (died 1890)
• 12 August – Leon Van Loo, photographer (died 1907)
• 20 November – Victor D'Hondt, lawyer (died 1902)
• 6 December – Aimé Dupont, photographer (died 1900)

Deaths

• 23 March – Jean-Baptiste Thorn (born 1783), politician
• 10 April – Henri Van Assche (born 1774), painter
• 28 April – Henri-Joseph van den Corput (born 1790), pharmacist
• 20 August – Constantinus Fidelio Coene (born 1780), painter

References

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