1854 in Belgium

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See also:	Other events of 1854 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1854 in Belgium.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Leopold I
• Head of government: Henri de Brouckère

Events

• 27 February – Commercial treaty with France on tariffs, transit and navigation for five years.
• 22 May – Provincial elections
• 13 June – Partial legislative elections of 1854

Publications

Periodicals

• Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, H. Tarlier)
• Annales de l'Académie d'archéologie de Belgique, vol. 11 (Antwerp, Froment)
• Annales de pomologie belge et étrangère, vol. 2.
• Isidore de Stein d'Altenstein (ed.), Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique, vol. 8 (Brussels, Auguste Decq and C. Muquardt)
• Bulletins de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 21 (Brussels, Hayez)
• Collection de précis historiques, vol. 5, edited by Edouard Terwecoren
• Messager des sciences historiques (Ghent, L. Hebbelynck)

Books

• Hendrik Conscience, Tales of Flemish life (Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature 3; Edinburgh, Thomas Constable)
• Charles Meerts, Dictionnaire Géographique et Statistique du Royaume de Belgique (Brussels, H. Goemaere)
• Jules de Saint-Genois, Historische verhalen
• Belgique industrielle: vues des établissements industriels de la Belgique (Brussels, Jules Géruzet)
• Exposition générale des Beaux-Arts, 1854: Catalogue explicatif (Brussels, G. Stapleaux)

Art and architecture

Antoine Wiertz, The Premature Burial (1854)

Paintings

• Antoine Wiertz, The Premature Burial

Births

• 22 April – Henri La Fontaine, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1943)
• 15 May – Émile Van Arenbergh, magistrate and writer (died 1934)
• 25 May – Joseph Van den Gheyn, Jesuit (died 1913)
• 2 July – Achille Gerste, Jesuit linguist (died 1920)
• 18 July – Émile Dossin de Saint-Georges, general (died 1936)
• 22 October – Édouard de Laveleye, engineer (died 1938)
• 31 October – Rémy Cogghe, painter (died 1935)

Deaths

• 28 February – Zoé de Gamond (born 1806), feminist
• 17 September – Joseph De Cauwer (born 1779), painter
• 16 October – Goswin de Stassart (born 1780), politician