title: 1841 in Belgium
text: # 1841 in Belgium
  
  Events in the year 1841 in Belgium.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * Monarch: Leopold I
  * Prime Minister: Joseph Lebeau (to 13 April); Jean-Baptiste Nothomb (from 13 April)
  
  ## Events
  
  * 13 April – Nothomb ministry comes to power.
  * 8 June – Parliamentary elections.
  * 15 July – Exposition des Produits le l'Industrie Nationale opens in Brussels.
  * 19 September – Founding of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium.
  
  ## Publications
  
  ### Periodicals
  
  * Almanach de la cour
  * Almanach royal de Belgique (Brussels, Librairie Polytechnique)
  * Annuaire de l'Académie royale des sciences et belles-letres de Bruxelles
  * Annuaire dramatique de la Belgique
  * Bulletins de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique
  * Journal de Bruxelles begins publication.
  * Messager des sciences historiques
  * La renaissance: Chronique des arts et de la littérature, 2.
  * Revue belge, vol. 17 (Liège, A. Jeunehomme)
  * Revue de Bruxelles
  
  ### Monographs and reports
  
  * Joseph Jean De Smet (ed.), Recueil des chroniques de Flandre, vol. 2 (Brussels, Commission royale d'Histoire)
  * Xavier Heuschling, Essai sur la statistique générale de la Belgique, 2nd edition (Brussels, Etablissement Géographique)
  * François Joseph Ferdinand Marchal, Histoire des Pays-Bas autrichiens (Brussels, Deprez-Parent)
  * M. E. Perrot, Revue de l'exposition des produits le l'industrie nationale en 1841 (Brussels)
  
  ### Guide books
  
  * A. Ferrier, Guide pittoresque du voyageur en Belgique (3rd edition, Brussels, Société Belge de Librairie)
  
  ## Art and architecture
  
  ### Paintings
  
  * Louis Gallait, The Abdication of Charles V
  * Antoine Wiertz, La Chute des Anges rebelles
  
  ### Buildings
  
  * Jean Baptiste De Baets, St. Stefanus, Ghent
  * Greenhouses of the Botanical Garden of Liège
  
  ## Births
  
  * 25 January – Cornelius Van Leemputten, painter (died 1902)
  * 12 July – César De Paepe, syndicalist (died 1890)
  * 12 August – Leon Van Loo, photographer (died 1907)
  * 20 November – Victor D'Hondt, lawyer (died 1902)
  * 6 December – Aimé Dupont, photographer (died 1900)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 23 March – Jean-Baptiste Thorn (born 1783), politician
  * 10 April – Henri Van Assche (born 1774), painter
  * 28 April – Henri-Joseph van den Corput (born 1790), pharmacist
  * 20 August – Constantinus Fidelio Coene (born 1780), painter
  