title: 1832 in Belgium
text: # 1832 in Belgium
  
  Events in the year 1832 in Belgium.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
      Monarch: Leopold I
      Head of government: Félix de Muelenaere (to 20 October); Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella (from 20 October)
  
  ## Events
  
  * 8 April – Engelbert Sterckx consecrated as Archbishop of Mechelen
  * 11 July
     * Order of Leopold established.
     * Provisional postal convention between Belgium and the Office of the Prince of Tour and Taxis signed in Frankfurt am Main.
  * 9 August – Leopold I of Belgium marries Louise of Orléans.
  * 20 October – Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella replaces Félix de Muelenaere as Prime Minister
  * 15 November to 23 December – Siege of Antwerp: Belgian army with French support invests Antwerp Citadel, held by Dutch forces.
  * 23 December – Siege of Antwerp concludes: Dutch forces removed from Antwerp Citadel.
  
  ## Publications
  
  * Almanach de poche de Bruxelles (Brussels, M.-E. Rampelbergh)
  * Annuaire industriel et administratif de la Belgique par province: Province du Brabant (Brussels)
  
  ## Art and architecture
  
  ### Paintings
  
  * Joseph De Cauwer, Prometheus Delivered by Hercules (now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent)
  
  ## Births
  
  * Date uncertain – Oswald Orth, philologist (died 1920)
  * 2 February – Gédéon Bordiau, architect (died 1904)
  * 8 March – William Henry James Weale, art historian (died 1917)
  * 24 March – Edouard Osy de Zegwaart, politician (died 1900)
  * 21 August – Charles-Joseph de Harlez de Deulin, Orientalist (died 1899)
  * 11 November – Paul Goethals, Archbishop of Calcutta (died 1901)
  * 10 December – Antoon Stillemans, bishop of Ghent (died 1916)
  * 13 December – Polydore de Keyser, Lord Mayor of London (died 1898)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * Date uncertain – William Cockerill (born 1757/9), industrialist
  * 16 December – Charles van Hulthem (born 1764), politician and bibliophile
  