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Decades:	1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s
See also:	Other events of 1852 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1852 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Monarch: Leopold I

Head of government: Charles Rogier (to 31 October); Henri de Brouckère (from 31 October)

Events

• 12 February – State visit of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert to Belgium.^[1]
• 15 April – Postal convention between Belgium and the Office of the Prince of Tour and Taxis signed in Brussels.^[2]
• 24 May – Provincial elections
• 8 June – Partial legislative elections of 1852.
• 22 August – Franco-Belgian conventions on intellectual property and tariffs.^[3]
• 31 October – Henri de Brouckère replaces Charles Rogier as Prime Minister.
• 7 November – Théodore de Montpellier consecrated as bishop of Liège in succession to Cornelius van Bommel.

Publications

Periodicals

• Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, Librairie Polytechnique)^[4]
• La Belgique Horticole, vol. 2.^[5]

Guidebooks and directories

• Belgium and the Rhine (London, David Bogue).^[6]
• Guide pittoresque du voyageur en Belgique: Itinéraire artistique, industriel et manufacturier (Guide Richard, 7th edition; Paris, L. Maison)^[7]
• Murray's Handbook for Belgium and the Rhine (London, John Murray)^[8]

Other

• Collection des discours prononcés aux distributions de prix des athénées royaux (Tournai, Bureau du Moniteur de l'Enseignement)^[9]
• Henri Alexis Brialmont, Considérations politiques et militaires sur la Belgique, vol. 3 (Brussels, M. Hayez)^[10]
• Jules de Saint-Genois, Feuillets détachés

Art and architecture

Paintings

• Louis Gallait, Gypsy Woman with Two Children

Births

• 24 January – Alexander Struys, painter (died 1941)
• 7 March – Constant de Deken, missionary (died 1896)
• 25 March – Gérard Cooreman, politician (died 1926)
• 27 March – Jan van Beers, artist (died 1927)
• 10 April – Arthur Vierendeel, engineer (died 1940)
• 21 April – Edward Maene, sculptor (died 1931)
• 9 June – Frans Van Kuyck, artist (died 1915)
• 12 July – Henry Moeller, review editor (died 1918)
• 31 August – Joris Helleputte, architect and politician (died 1925)
• 20 September – Édouard Empain, engineer-entrepreneur (died 1929)
• 2 December – Lucien Bia, soldier (died 1892)

Deaths

• 28 January – Augustin Dumon-Dumortier (born 1791), industrialist and politician
• 7 April – Cornelius van Bommel (born 1790), bishop of Liège
• 6 May – Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens (born 1777), theatre director
• 17 October – Henri Decaisne (born 1799), painter