title: 1855 in Belgium
text: # 1855 in Belgium
  
  Events in the year 1855 in Belgium.
  
  ## 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
  