← 1856 1855 1854 1857 in Belgium → 1858 1859 1860
Decades:	1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s
See also:	Other events of 1857 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1857 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Monarch: Leopold I

Head of government: Pierre de Decker (to 9 November); Charles Rogier (from 9 November)

Events

• Jean Neuhaus opens an apothecary shop in Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert
• 28 May – Liberal protests near the Palace of the Nation against a proposed "convents" law that would give the Catholic Church more power to manage charitable foundations.
• 27 October – Municipal elections, giving a liberal victory.
• 30 October – Pierre de Decker's ministry resigns.
• 10 December – Snap legislative elections, giving a liberal victory.

Publications

Periodicals

• Almanach de poche de Bruxelles (Brussels, M. E. Rampelbergh)^[1]
• Almanach du commerce et de l'industrie (Brussels, H. Tarlier)^[2]
• Annales de pomologie belge et étrangère, vol. 5.^[3][4]
• Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique, vol. 11, edited by Isidore de Stein d'Altenstein^[5]
• Annuaire statistique et historique belge, vol. 4, edited by Auguste Scheler^[6]
• Annuaire de l'Académie royale de Belgique, vol. 23^[7]
• La Belgique, 4^[8]
• La Belgique Horticole, vol. 7.^[9]
• Bulletin de l'Académie royale de médecine de Belgique, ser. 2, vol. 1.^[10]
• Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences et belles-lettres de Bruxelles, vol. 3 (Brussels, Hayez).^[11]
• Collection de précis historiques, vol. 6, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J.^[12]
• Journal de l'armée belge, vols. 13-14^[13]
• Journal d'horticulture pratique de la Belgique^[14]
• De toekomst: tijdschrift voor opvoeding en onderwijs begins publication^[15]

Official reports and monographs

• Recueil consulaire contenant les rapports commerciaux^[16]
• Recueil des lois et arrêtés royaux de la Belgique, vol. 9^[17]
• Joseph Jean De Smet, Vie de Saint-Liévin, patron de Gand et apôtre du pays d'Alost (Ghent)^[18]
• Jean-Joseph Thonissen, La Belgique sous le règne de Léopold I, vol. 3 (Liège, J.-G. Lardinois)^[19]

Guidebooks and directories

• David Bogue, Belgium and the Rhine (London, Lee and Carter).^[20]

Literature

• Frans de Cort, Liederen, eerste reeks (Antwerp)^[21]

Births

• 12 January – Léon de Witte de Haelen, general (died 1933)
• 21 February – Jules de Trooz, politician (died 1907)
• 18 March – César Thomson, violinist (died 1931)
• 8 April – Marie Louise De Meester, religious foundress (died 1928)
• 27 April – Louis-Napoléon Chaltin, colonial officer (died 1933)
• 11 August – Cyriaque Gillain, general (died 1931)
• 25 August – Louis-Gustave Amelot, engineer (died 1884)
• 28 August – Auguste Goffinet, courtier (died 1927)

Deaths

• 4 January – François-Jean Wyns de Raucour (born 1779), politician
• 7 February – Félix de Mérode (born 1791), politician
• 28 February – André Dumont (born 1809), geologist
• 3 May – Jean Baptiste Smits (born 1792), politician

References

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