Events in the year 1847 in Belgium.
Incumbents
Monarch: Leopold I Prime Minister: Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt (to 12 August); Charles Rogier (from 12 August)
Events
6 April – Law on "offences against the king" provides for prison sentences from 6 months to 3 years and fines of between 300 and 3000 francs for threats and insults against the head of state. 7 June – Théâtre des Galeries opens in Brussels. 8 June – Partial legislative elections. 20 June – Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert shopping arcade opened in Brussels. 1 July – Opening of the Exposition des produits de l'industrie nationale in Brussels.Catalogue des produits de l'industrie belge admis à l'exposition de 1847 (1847) on Google Books 9 August – Antwerp–Ghent railway line completed. 27 September – Premonstratensians return to Postel Abbey.Theodoor Ignaz Welvaarts, Postel en zijn vroegere invloed in Nederland (1882), p. 7 on Google Books.
Publications Periodicals Annales parlementaires de Belgique Bulletins de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique (Brussels, M. Hayez), vol. 14. Messager des sciences historiques (Ghent, Léonard Hebbelynck). Revue de Bruxellesvol. 3 (1847), vol. 4 (1847)
Exhibitions J.B.A.M. Jobard, Exposition de l'industrie Belge 1847 Catalogue des produits de l'industrie belge admis à l'exposition de 1847
Scholarship André Dumont, Mémoire sur les terrains Ardennais et Rhénan de l'Ardenne, du Rhin, du Brabant et du Condros (Brussels, Hayez) Émile Louis Victor de Laveleye, L'Histoire des rois francs
Literature Tegenwoordig België (Liberalen, Katholyken en Vlaemsche-beweging) door Een' Noord-Nederlander beoordeeld (Ghent, Snoeck-Ducaju en zoon); reprinted from De Gids. Hippoliet Van Peene, "De Vlaamse Leeuw", song set to music by Karel Miry Hippoliet Van Peene, Willem van Dampierre, historical drama
Art and architecture
Buildings Jean-Pierre Cluysenaar's Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert completed
Paintings Antoine Wiertz, La Belle Rosine
Births 9 March – Martin Pierre Marsick, composer (died 1924) 9 April – Léon Mignon, sculptor (died 1898) 11 May – Godefroid Kurth, historian (died 1916) 27 August – Édouard Descamps, jurist and politician (died 1933) 31 August – Arthur Verhaegen, architect and politician (died 1917) 3 October – Frantz Jourdain, architect (died 1935)
Deaths 19 March – Karel Lodewijk Ledeganck (born 1805), writer 4 April – Julie du Bosch (born 1797), social reformer
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