title: 1835 in Belgium
text: # 1835 in Belgium
  
  Events in the year 1835 in Belgium.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * Monarch: Leopold I
  * Prime Minister: Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt
  
  ## Events
  
  * 12 February – Court of Cassation finds that the laws on injury and manslaughter apply to participants in duels.
  * 5 May – First Belgian railway line, between Brussels and Mechelen, taken into service, with three locomotives: Flèche, Eléphant, and Stephenson.
  * 10 May – Gaspard-Joseph Labis becomes bishop of Tournai.
  * 9 June – 1835 Belgian general election
  * 8 August – Brussels Coin Cabinet opens
  * 15 September – Exposition des produits de l'industrie nationale opens in Brussels.
  * 10 October – Second provisional postal convention between Belgium and the Office of the Prince of Tour and Taxis signed in Brussels.
  * 1 December – Catholic University of Mechelen relocates to Leuven, becoming Catholic University of Leuven.
  
  ## Publications
  
  ### Periodicals
  
  * Almanach administratif et industriel de Bruxelles (Brussels, Ad. Wahlen)
  * Almanach de poche de Bruxelles (Brussels, M.-E. Rampelbergh)
  * Annuaire de l'Académie royale de Belgique (Brussels, M. Hayez).
  * Bulletin médical Belge.
  * Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences et belles-lettres, Volume 2 (Brussels, M. Hayez).
  * Le cultivateur, journal belge d'économie rurale.
  * Messager des sciences et des arts de la Belgique, vol. 3 (Ghent, D. Duvivier).
  * Revue Belge (Liége, Jeunehomme frères).
  
  ### Monographs and reports
  
  * Pasinomie: collection complète des lois, décrets, arrêtés et réglements généraux qui peuvent être invoqués en Belgique.
  * De l'industrie et du commerce en Belgique (Brussels, H. Remy).
  * Édouard Ducpétiaux, Statistique comparée de la criminalité en France, en Belgique, en Angleterre et en Allemagne (Brussels, L. Hauman).
  * Louis Prosper Gachard (ed.), Collection de documents inédits concernant l'histoire de la Belgique, vol. 3 (Brussels, Louis Hauman).
  * Jean-Baptiste Van Mons, Arbres fruitiers: leur culture en Belqique (Leuven, L. Dusart and H. Vandenbroeck).
  
  ### Fiction
  
  * Jules de Saint-Genois, Hembyse
  
  ### Guide books
  
  * A. X. Mauvy, The Stranger's Guide through Brussels and its Environs (Brussels, Adolphus Wahlen)
  * The Traveller's Guide Through Belgium (Brussels, Adolphus Wahlen)
  
  ## Births
  
  * 21 January – Charles du Bois de Vroylande, politician (died 1888)
  * 2 February – Stanislas Bormans, archivist (died 1912)
  * 9 April – Leopold II of Belgium (died 1909)
  * 23 August – Jules Bara, politician (died 1900)
  * 28 September – Jean Louis Gobbaerts, composer (died 1886)
  * 20 October – Emile De Mot, mayor of Brussels (died 1909)
  * 4 November – Amedée Visart de Bocarmé, mayor of Bruges (died 1924)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 24 February – Gilles-Lambert Godecharle (born 1750), sculptor
  * 3 June – Andreas Bernardus de Quertenmont (born 1750), artist
  