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Other events of 1832
List of years 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

Siege of Antwerp, 1832

8 April – Engelbert Sterckx consecrated as Archbishop of Mechelen
11 July
- Order of Leopold established.^[1]
- Provisional postal convention between Belgium and the Office of the Prince of Tour and Taxis signed in Frankfurt am Main.^[2]
9 August – Leopold I of Belgium marries Louise of Orléans.^[1]
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)^[3]
Annuaire industriel et administratif de la Belgique par province: Province du Brabant (Brussels)^[4]

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

William Cockerill

Date uncertain – William Cockerill (born 1757/9), industrialist
16 December – Charles van Hulthem (born 1764), politician and bibliophile

References

^ ^a ^b William Henry Overall, The dictionary of chronology, or historical and statistical register (London, 1870), p. 76.
^ Convention postale provisoire entre la Belgique et l'Office du Prince de la Tour et Taxis, signée à Francfort-sur-le-Main le 11 juillet 1832 via refLex
^ On Google Books
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