← 1838 1837 1836 1839 in Belgium → 1840 1841 1842
Decades:	1830s 1840s 1850s
See also:	Other events of 1839 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1839 in Belgium.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Leopold I
• Prime Minister: Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt^[1]

Events

• 19 April – Treaty of London guarantees Belgian independence and neutrality; Luxembourg and Limburg partitioned.
• 21 May – Royal Library of Belgium opens to the public.
• 11 June – Parliamentary elections

Publications

• Maetschappy der Vlaemsche Bibliophilen founded by Constant-Philippe Serrure and Philip Blommaert as a text publication society to produce editions of medieval Flemish literature.

Periodicals

• Bibliographie de la Belgique, ou catalogue général de livres belges (Brussels, C. Muquardt)^[2]
• Revue de Bruxelles, 3.^[3]

Official publications

• Machines à vapeur: Arrêtés et instructions (Brussels, Librairie Polytechnique)^[4]

Other works

• Kronyk van Vlaenderen van 580 tot 1467 (2 vols, Ghent, Maetschappy der Vlaemsche Bibliophilen).^[5]
• Le promeneur dans Bruxelles et dans ses environs (Brussels, Société Typographique Belge)^[6]
• Mrs. Wemyss Dalrymple, The Economist's New Brussels Guide (Brussels, W. Todd)^[7]
• Louis de Potter, Révolution belge, 1828 à 1839: Souvenirs personnels (Brussels, Meline, Cans & co.)^[8]
• Joseph Jean De Smet, Abrégé de l'histoire de la Belgique, third edition (Ghent)^[9]
• Pierre Simons and Gustave Nicolas Joseph de Ridder, Le Chemin de fer belge, ou recueil des mémoires et devis pour l'établissement du chemin de fer d'Anvers et Ostende à Cologne, avec embranchement de Bruxelles et de Gand aux frontières de France, 3rd edition (Brussels, Lacross et Cie.)^[10]
• Auguste Voisin, La bataille de Woeringen: récit historique (Brussels, Société des Beaux-Arts)^[11]

Art and architecture

• Antoine Wiertz, Esmeralda, Quasimodo

Births

• 10 February – Max Rooses, writer and museum curator (died 1914)
• 1 March – Élie Marchal, botanist (died 1923)
• 28 July – Isabelle Gatti de Gamond, feminist educator (died 1905)
• 7 August – Charles Hermans, painter (died 1924)
• 30 August – Henri Maquet, architect (died 1909)
• 18 October – Alphonse Joseph Charles Dubois, naturalist (died 1921)
• 18 December – Adolf Daens, radical priest (died 1907)
• 26 December – Charles John Seghers, missionary bishop (died 1886)

Deaths

• 9 June – Joseph Paelinck (born 1781), painter
• 7 August – Erasme Louis Surlet de Chokier (born 1769), politician
• 15 December – Mattheus Ignatius van Bree (born 1773), painter