1855 in Belgium

The following events occurred in Belgium in the year 1855.

Incumbents

Events

21 January – Fire at the Monnaie Theatre.
30 March – Pierre de Decker succeeds Henri de Brouckère as Prime Minister.
9 April – Royal Belgian Entomological Society founded.
12 June – Elections to the Senate
29 June – Telegraphic convention between Belgium, France and Prussia signed in Berlin.
Collège Saint-François-Xavier established in Verviers.

Publications

;PeriodicalsAlmanach royal officiel Annales de pomologie belge et étrangère, vol. 3.Annuaire statistique et historique belge, vol. 2, edited by Auguste Scheler La Belgique Horticole, vol. 5.Bulletin de la Commission Centrale de Statistique Collection de précis historiques, vol. 6, edited by Edouard TerwecorenLe Guide musical begins publication with Schott frèresMessager des sciences historiques Pasicrisie ou recueil général de la jurisprudence des cours de France et de Belgique Pasinomie: collection complète des lois, décrets, ordonnances, arrêtés et règlements généraux, edited by M. Ranwet Vaderlandsch museum voor Nederduitsche letterkunde, oudheid en geschiedenis begins publication, edited by Constant-Philippe Serrure.
;Books

Hendrik Conscience, The Lion of Flanders, English translation
Hendrik Conscience, Tales of Old Flanders: Count Hugo of Craenhove and Wooden Clara
Walter Scott, France and Belgium
Jean-Joseph Thonissen, La Belgique sous le règne de Léopold I, vol. 1

Art and architecture

;Buildings

Gustave Saintenoy, Quartier Leopold railway station, Brussels

;Paintings

Jean Carolus, Baby's First Steps
Jean Carolus, The Finishing Touches
Emile De Cauwer, Church Interior
Henri Joseph Dillens, The Bird's Nest
Charles Leickert, Coastal scene with fisherfolk
Henri Leys, Home-Coming
Alfred Stevens, The Painter and His Model
Ildephonse Stocquart, Fleeing the Storm
François Stroobant, ''Courtyard of the Palace of Margaret of Austria''

Births

14 March – Émile Wangermée, colonial officer
16 April – Edouard de Jans, painter
3 May – Amaat Joos, priest
9 May – Emilie Claeys, feminist
10 May – Anthony Bowlby, soldier
21 May – Émile Verhaeren, poet
9 July – Jakob Smits, painter
16 July – Georges Rodenbach, author
21 August – Auguste Toubeau, trade unionist
1 September – Eugène Boch, painter
3 September – Emilius Seghers, bishop of Ghent
4 September – Théophile Alexis Durand, botanist
6 October – Alexandre Delcommune, soldier
22 December – Victor Deguise, general

Deaths

27 February – Louis Lambillotte, Jesuit musicologist
24 April – Angelus de Baets, painter
13 November – James Oliver Van de Velde, bishop
20 December – Pierre-Ernest Dams, politician