Contents

• Incumbents
• Events
• Publications
• Births
• Deaths
• References

← 1842 1841 1840 1843 in Belgium → 1844 1845 1846
Decades:	1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s
See also:	Other events of 1843 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1843 in Belgium .

Incumbents

• Monarch: Leopold I
• Prime Minister: Jean-Baptiste Nothomb ^[1]

Events

• Pierre-Joseph van Beneden establishes the world's first marine laboratory in Ostend
• 12 June – Parliamentary elections
• 21 July – Antwerp Zoo established
• 7 August – Border convention between Belgium and the Luxembourg concluded at Maastricht. ^[2]
• 8 August – Border convention between Belgium and the Netherlands concluded at Maastricht. ^[3]

Publications

Periodicals

• Almanach royal de Belgique (Brussels, Librairie Polytechnique) ^[4]
• La Belgique judiciaire: gazette des tribunaux belges et étrangers ^[5]
• Bulletin et Annales de l'Académie d'Archéologie de Belgique begins publication. ^[6]
• Journal historique et littéraire , vol. 10 (Liège, Pierre Kersten) ^[7]
• La renaissance: Chronique des arts et de la littérature, 4. ^[8]
• Revue de Bruxelles changes title to Nouvelle Revue de Bruxelles. ^[9]
• Revue nationale de Belgique, Vol. 9 ^[10]

Monographs and reports

• État de l'instruction moyenne en Belgique, 1830-1842 ^[11]
• Notice statistique sur les Journaux Belges: 1830-1842 ^[12]
• Edward Dobson, An Historical, Statistical, and Scientific Account of the Railways of Belgium from 1834 to 1842 (London, John Weale) ^[13]
• Charles Marcellis, Coup d'oeuil sur la Belgique en 1843 ^[14]
• Pierre-Joseph Van Beneden, Recherches sur l'embryogénie des tubulaires
• Pierre-Joseph Van Beneden, Mémoire sur les campanulaires de la côte d'Ostende

Literature

• Henry Robert Addison, Belgium as she is (Brussels and Leipzig, C. Muquardt) ^[15]
• Hendrik Conscience, Hoe men schilder wordt
• Hendrik Conscience, Wat een Moeder lijden kan

Births

• 18 March – Jules Vandenpeereboom, politician (died 1917)
• 26 April – Paul de Vigne, sculptor (died 1901)
• 13 May – Paul de Smet de Naeyer, politician (died 1913)
• 25 July – Edmond Hanssens, colonial administrator (died 1884)
• 19 September – Charles van der Stappen, sculptor (died 1910)

Deaths

• 2 March – François-Joseph-Philippe de Riquet (born 1771), prince of Chimay
• 12 December – William I of the Netherlands (born 1772), former head of state

References

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