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;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