Events in the year 1833 in Belgium.
Incumbents Monarch: Leopold I Prime Minister: Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella
Events
23 January – Treaty of amity and navigation with the United States signed but never ratified.C. Pety de Thozée, Système commercial de la Belgique, vol. 2 (Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe, 1875), pp. 85-86. On Google Books 23 February – Grand Orient of Belgium established, with Goswin de Stassart as first Grand Master 21 May – Convention of London indefinitely extends ceasefire with the Kingdom of the Netherlands following the Belgian Revolution of 1830 23 May – 1833 Belgian general election 16 June – Jean Arnould Barret consecrated as Bishop of Namur 18 July – Law on distilleries passed, establishing a duty of 22 centimes per hectolitre per day on distillation containers used.Eric Van Schoonenberghe, Alcohol tijdens de negentiende eeuw: Biotechnologie in volle evolutie (Snoeck, 2012), pp. 26-27. 8 September – First Daughters of the Cross make their vows (founder Marie Thérèse Haze). October – Opening of Sint-Barbaracollege, re-established Jesuit college in Ghent. 8 October – Belgian Iron Cross established to honour bravery during the Belgian Revolution 18 November – Treaty of Zonhoven between Belgium and the Netherlands, regulating navigation on the Meuse River
Publications Almanach de poche de Bruxelles (Brussels, M.-E. Rampelbergh)Almanach de poche on Google Books. Almanach de la Province de la Flandre Orientale (Ghent, Vanderhaeghe-Maya)Almanach de la Province on Google Books. Pasinomie, ou Collection complète des lois, décrets, arrêtés et règlemens généraux qui peuvent être invoqués en Belgique, vol. 1.Pasinomie on Google Books. Auguste Drapiez and Pierre Corneille van Geel, Encyclographie du règne végétal (Brussels)Encyclographie on Google Books.
Births
7 February – Eugène Anspach, governor of the national bank (died 1890) 18 March – José Dupuis, performer (died 1900) 6 April – Charles De Smedt, Church historian (died 1911) 24 July – Louis-Philippe, Crown Prince of Belgium (died 1834) 4 November – Théophile de Lantsheere, politician (died 1918)
Deaths 20 February – Jean-Baptiste de Bouge (born 1757), cartographer 12 May – Philippe-Auguste Hennequin (born 1762), artist 26 September – Auguste Marie Raymond d'Arenberg (born 1753), aristocrat
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