# 1855 in Belgium

The following events occurred in Belgium in the year 1855.

## Incumbents

* Monarch: Leopold I
* Head of government: Henri de Brouckère (to 30 March); Pierre de Decker (from 30 March)

## 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
### Periodicals

* Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, H. Tarlier)
* Annales de pomologie belge et étrangère, vol. 3.
* Annuaire statistique et historique belge, vol. 2, edited by Auguste Scheler (Brussels, Kiessling-Schnee & Cie.)
* La Belgique Horticole, vol. 5.
* Bulletin de la Commission Centrale de Statistique (Brussels, M. Hayez)
* Collection de précis historiques, vol. 6, edited by Edouard Terwecoren
* Le Guide musical begins publication with Schott frères
* Messager des sciences historiques (Ghent, L. Hebbelynck)
* Pasicrisie ou recueil général de la jurisprudence des cours de France et de Belgique (Brussels, E. Bruylant., 1855)
* Pasinomie: collection complète des lois, décrets, ordonnances, arrêtés et règlements généraux, edited by M. Ranwet (Brussels, Meline, Cans et Cie.)
* Vaderlandsch museum voor Nederduitsche letterkunde, oudheid en geschiedenis begins publication, edited by Constant-Philippe Serrure.

### Books

* Hendrik Conscience, The Lion of Flanders, English translation (London, Lambert & co.)
* Hendrik Conscience, Tales of Old Flanders: Count Hugo of Craenhove and Wooden Clara (London, Lambert & co.)
* Walter Scott, France and Belgium (Edinburgh, Adam & Charles Black)
* Jean-Joseph Thonissen, La Belgique sous le règne de Léopold I, vol. 1 (Liège, J.-G. Lardinois)

## 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 (died 1924)
* 16 April – Edouard de Jans, painter (died 1919)
* 3 May – Amaat Joos, priest (died 1937)
* 9 May – Emilie Claeys, feminist (died 1943)
* 10 May – Anthony Bowlby, soldier (died 1929)
* 21 May – Émile Verhaeren, poet (died 1916)
* 9 July – Jakob Smits, painter (died 1928)
* 16 July – Georges Rodenbach, author (died 1898)
* 21 August – Auguste Toubeau, trade unionist (died 1912)
* 1 September – Eugène Boch, painter (died 1941)
* 3 September – Emilius Seghers, bishop of Ghent (died 1927)
* 4 September – Théophile Alexis Durand, botanist (died 1912)
* 6 October – Alexandre Delcommune, soldier (died 1922)
* 22 December – Victor Deguise, general (died 1925)

## Deaths

* 27 February – Louis Lambillotte (born 1796), Jesuit musicologist
* 24 April – Angelus de Baets (born 1793), painter
* 13 November – James Oliver Van de Velde (born 1795), bishop
* 20 December – Pierre-Ernest Dams (born 1794), politician