1859 in Belgium
Events in the year 1859 in Belgium.
Events
- Fabrique d'armes Émile et Léon Nagant established in Liège
- Railway line from Namur to Arlon completed
- 18 April – Five-year commercial treaty with France extended for two more years.
- 14 June – Partial legislative elections
- 19 July – Auguste Orts replaces Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen as speaker of the Chamber of Representatives.
- 9 August – Modeste Decroix and Louis-Joseph Miroux, both of Scourmont Priory, condemned to twenty years and ten years hard labour respectively on multiple counts of sexual assault.
- 31 August – Belgian Chamber of Representatives votes to fortify Antwerp as a National Redoubt.
- 3 November – Celebration of the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Catholic University of Leuven.
- 24 November – Breve of Pope Pius IX congratulating the Catholic University of Leuven on its twenty-fifth anniversary.
Art and architecture
;Paintings- Alfred Stevens, ''Will you come out with me, Fido?''
Publications
;PeriodicalsAlmanach de poche de Bruxelles Annales de pomologie belge et étrangère, vol. 7.Annuaire de l'Académie royale de Belgique, vol. 25Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique, vol. 13, edited by Isidore de Stein d'AltensteinAnnuaire statistique et historique belge, vol. 6, edited by Auguste SchelerLa Belgique, 8La Belgique Horticole, vol. 9.Bibliographie de la Belgique, ou Catalogue général de l'imprimerie et de la librairie belges, vol. 22 Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences et belles-lettres de Bruxelles.Bulletin et annales de l'Académie d'archéologie de Belgique, vol. 6Collection de précis historiques, vol. 8, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J.Journal de l'armée belge, vol. 17Journal d'horticulture pratique de la BelgiqueLe Moniteur Belge Recueil consulaire contenant les rapports commerciauxRecueil des lois et arrêtés royaux de la Belgique, vol. 11;Reports and monographsXIVe exposition nationale et triennale de Gand. Salon de 1859. Notice sur les tableaux et objets d'arts, exposés à l'ancienne église des PP. Dominicains
- Charles Bormann, The Shrapnel Shell in England and in Belgium with Some Reflections on the Use of this Projectile in the Late Crimean War; a Historico-technical Sketch
- Jules Malou, La question monétaire
- Edmond Speelman, Belgium Marianum: Histoire du culte de Marie en Belgique y compris l'ancien territoire de Lille, de Douai, de Cambrai, etc.: calendrier belge de la Sainte Vierge
- Jean Stecher, Flamands et Wallons
- Frans de Cort, ''Liederen, tweede reeks''
Births
- 10 January – Léon Du Bois, organist
- 19 January – Marie Nizet, writer
- 2 April – Léon Rom, colonial officer
- 17 April – Charles van den Eycken, painter
- 19 May – Célestin Demblon, politician
- 25 May – Renée de Merode, noblewoman
- 12 June – Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant
- 19 August – Hippolyte Delehaye, Bollandist
- 20 September – Cyriel Buysse, playwright
- 7 October – Georgette Meunier, painter
- 4 November – Jules Feller, academician
- 7 November – Paul de Smeth, philatelist
- 11 December – Paul Hankar, architect
- 25 December – Jean-François Heymans, pharmacologist
Deaths
- 3 March – Cornelis Cels, painter
- 20 March – Jozef Geirnaert, artist
- 22 July – Louis de Potter, journalist
- 13 November – Prudens van Duyse, writer