← 1857 1856 1855 1858 in Belgium → 1859 1860 1861
Decades:	1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s
See also:	Other events of 1858 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1858 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Monarch: Leopold I

Head of government: Charles Rogier

Events

• 24 May – Provincial elections
• 17 July – New commercial treaty agreed with the United States.^[1]
• 2 August – Bourse of Antwerp burns down.
• September – International congress on intellectual property held in Brussels.^[2][3]

Publications

Periodicals

• Almanach de poche de Bruxelles (Brussels, Tircher)^[4]
• Annales de pomologie belge et étrangère, vol. 6.^[5][6]
• Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique, vol. 12, edited by Isidore de Stein d'Altenstein^[7]
• Annuaire statistique et historique belge, vol. 5, edited by Auguste Scheler^[8]
• Annuaire de l'Académie royale de Belgique, vol. 24^[9]
• La Belgique, 5^[10]
• La Belgique Horticole, vol. 8.^[11]
• Bulletin et annales de l'Académie d'archéologie de Belgique, vol. 5^[12]
• Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences et belles-lettres de Bruxelles, vol. 5 (Brussels, Hayez).^[13]
• Collection de précis historiques, vol. 7, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J.^[14]
• Journal de l'armée belge, vol. 15^[15]
• Journal d'horticulture pratique de la Belgique^[16]

Official reports and monographs

• Recueil consulaire contenant les rapports commerciaux^[17]
• Recueil des lois et arrêtés royaux de la Belgique, vol. 10^[18]

Other works

• C. H. Barlet, Géographie industrielle et commerciale de la Belgique (Mechelen, E.-F. van Velsen)^[19]
• Hendrik Conscience, De omwenteling van 1830 (Antwerp, J. P. van Dieren)^[20]
• Alexandre Henne, Histoire du règne de Charles-Quint en Belgique (Brussels and Leipzig, Émile Flatau)^[21]
• Jan van Ruusbroec, Dat Boec van den gheesteleken Tabernacule, edited by Jean-Baptist David, 2 volumes (Ghent, Maetschappy der Vlaemsche Bibliophilen).^[22]
• Jean-Joseph Thonissen, La Belgique sous le règne de Léopold I, vol. 4 (Liège, J.-G. Lardinois)^[23]
• Alphonse Wauters, Bruxelles et ses faubourgs: guide de l'étranger (Brussels, C. W. Froment)^[24]

Births

• 8 April – Eugène van Rechem, bishop (died 1943)
• 16 April – Philippe Wolfers, jeweller (died 1929)
• 7 May – Charles Liebrechts, explorer (died 1938)
• 21 June – Léon Roget, colonial officer (died 1909)
• 12 September – Fernand Khnopff, painter (died 1921)
• 19 October – George Albert Boulenger, zoologist (died 1937)
• 4 November – Jacques de Lalaing, artist (died 1917)

Deaths

• 22 February – Noël Delfosse (born 1801), politician
• 14 March – Henri Guillaume Galeotti (born 1814), botanist and geologist
• 22 April – François Joseph Ferdinand Marchal (born 1780), archivist
• 29 April – Charles d'Hane de Steenhuyze (born 1787), politician
• 15 May – Jacques Coghen (born 1791), politician
• 27 June – Coralie van den Cruyce (born 1796), writer