1849 in Belgium

Incumbents

Events

• 24-26 March – Rio Nuñez incident off the West African coast
• 1 July – First Belgian postage stamp issued.
• 28 August – Grand Steeple-Chase des Flandres first held

  Publications

• Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique, 3.
• Bulletin de l'Académie Royale de Médecine de Belgique, 9.
• Bulletins de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 16.

• Félix Victor Goethals, Dictionnaire généalogique et héraldique des familles nobles du Royaume de Belgique.

  Art and architecture

• Saint Joseph's Church, Brussels

• Louis Gallait, Art and Liberty
• Jacob Jacobs, Merchant Vessels off the Turkish Coast

  Births

• 24 May – Albert Lancaster, meteorologist
• 31 May – Aymard d'Ursel, papal courtier
• 8 June – Julien Dillens, sculptor
• 10 June – Félix de Hemptinne, abbot
• 27 September – Emile Claus, painter
• 8 October – Alfred Verhaeren, painter
• 28 November – Albert Thys, businessman
• 2 December – Émile Braun, engineer
• 20 December – Philippe Dautzenberg, biologist

  Deaths

• 15 February – Pierre François Verhulst, mathematician
• 7 May – Theodoor van Rijswijck, writer
• 31 May – Leonard du Bus de Gisignies, soldier and politician
• 27 August – Dominic Barberi, religious
• 16 December – Maria Jacoba Ommeganck, painter