1853 in Belgium

none 1853 Events in the year 1853 in Belgium. Incumbents Monarch: Leopold I Head of government: Henri de Brouckère Events thumb|Leopold, Duke of Brabant, sworn in as a member of the Belgian Senate 9 April – Prince Leopold sworn in as a member of the Belgian Senate. 9 June – Aalst railway station opens. 22 August – Marriage of Leopold, Duke of Brabant, heir to the Belgian throne, and Marie Henriette of Austria.Joseph Irving, The Annals of Our Time (London and New York, 1871), p. 389. 23 August – International Maritime Conference opens in Brussels under the chairmanship of Adolphe Quetelet and at the instigation of Matthew Fontaine Maury (ends 8 September)Maritime Conference held at Brussels for Devising a Uniform System of Meteorological Observations at Sea (n.p.d.). On Google Books. 19 September – First International Statistical Congress opens in Brussels under the chairmanship of Adolphe Quetelet. Publications thumb|Victoria raspberry from Annales de pomologie belge et étrangère, vol. 1 (1853) Alexandre Rodenbach, Les aveugles et les sourds-muets: histoire, instruction, éducation, biographies (Brussels, J. A. Slingeneyer)Les aveugles et les sourds-muets on Google Books Periodicals Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, H. Tarlier)Almanach royal on Google Books. Annales de pomologie belge et étrangère (Commission Royale de Pomologie) begins publication.Vol. 1 on Wikisource (French). Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique, vol. 5, edited by Isidore de Stein d'AltensteinAnnuaire de la noblesse on Google Books. La Belgique Horticole, vol. 3.Belgique Horticole on Google Books. Bulletins de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, vol. 20 (Brussels, M. Hayez)Bulletins de l'Académie on Google Books. Recueil des pièces imprimées par ordre de la Chambre des Représentants, vol. 3.Recueil des pièces on Google Books. 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)Bradshaw on Google Books. Francis Coghlan, The Miniature Guide to the Rhine through Belgium and Holland (London, J. Onwhyn)Miniature Guide on Google Books. Art and architecture thumb|Aalst railway station Buildings Aalst railway station thumb|Antoine Wiertz, Hunger, Madness and Crime (1853), Wiertz Museum Paintings Henri Leys, Frans Floris Going to a Saint Luke's Day Feast 1540 Charles Verlat, Buffalo Ambushed by a Tiger Antoine Wiertz, Hunger, Madness and Crime Births 31 January – Marie-Elisabeth Belpaire, Flemish activist (died 1948) 14 February – Jan Van Rijswijck, politician (died 1906) 20 December – Marie Parent, feminist (died 1934) Deaths 11 January – Floris Nollet (born 1794), engineer 18 January – Antoine Payen the Younger (born 1792), painter 12 February – Joseph Van Hoorde (born 1818), horticulturalist 5 March — Hirsch Sommerhausen (born 1781), educator and translator 30 April – Edouard Mary (born 1796), social reformer 3 December – Lazare Richtenberger (born 1792), banker References 1853 Belgium Category:Years of the 19th century in Belgium Category:1850s in Belgium Belgium