← 1833 1832 1831 1834 in Belgium → 1835 1836 1837
Decades:	1830s 1840s 1850s
See also:	Other events of 1834 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1834 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt, Prime Minister 1834-1840, 1846-1847, 1871-1874

• Monarch: Leopold I
• Prime Minister: Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella (to 4 August), Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt (from 4 August)^[1]

Events

• 1 May – Belgian State Railways established.
• 25 May – Convention between Belgium and Denmark on rights to inherit and acquire property comes into effect.^[2]
• 27 May – Diocese of Bruges re-established, with Franciscus Renatus Boussen as bishop
• 1 June – Work begins on first Belgian railway line.
• 10 June – Belgian bishops announce plans to establish a Catholic University (later to become Catholic University of Leuven).^[1]
• 25 June – Masonic lodge Les Amis Philanthropes announces plans to establish a secularist university (to become the Université libre de Bruxelles).^[1]
• 22 July – Commission royale d'Histoire founded.
• 22 September – Treaty of amity, commerce and navigation with the Empire of Brazil signed in Rio de Janeiro.^[3]
• 1 November – Postal convention with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland comes into effect.^[4]
• 8 November – Opening of the Catholic University of Belgium in Mechelen.
• 20 November – Opening of the Université Libre de Belgique in Brussels.
• 17 December – Declarations of reciprocity with the Kingdom of Prussia regarding the inheriting and acquiring of property.^[5]
• 29 December – Extradition treaty with the Kingdom of France comes into force.^[6]

Publications

• Journal historique et littéraire begins publication in Liège, owned and edited by Pierre Kersten.^[7]
• Pasinomie: collection complète des lois, décrets, arrêtés et réglements généraux qui peuvent être invoqués en Belgique.^[8]
• Charles de Brouckère and F. Tielemans, Répertoire de l'administration et du droit administratif de la Belgique, Vols. 1-2 (Brussels, Weissenbruch)^[9]
• Maria Doolaeghe, Nederduitsche letteroefeningen
• Zoé de Gamond, De la condition sociale des femmes aux dix-neuvième siècle (Brussels, Berthot)^[10]
• A. X. Mauvy, Le Promeneur dans Bruxelles et ses environs (Brussels, Adolphe Wahlen)^[11]
• Frances Trollope, Belgium and Western Germany in 1833 (2 vols., Paris, 1834)^[12]
• Coralie van den Cruyce, Les orphelins de la grande armée (Brussels)

Births

• 4 January – Frans de Potter, founder of the Davidsfonds (died 1904)
• 9 January – Jan Verhas, painter (died 1896)
• 3 June – Camille van Camp, painter (died 1891)
• 21 June – Frans de Cort, poet and translator (died 1878)
• 17 August – Peter Benoit, composer (died 1901)

Deaths

Crown Prince Louis-Philippe

• date uncertain – Marie de Latour (born 1750), painter
• 16 May – Louis-Philippe, Crown Prince of Belgium (born 1833)
• 27 July – Jean Joseph Delplancq (born 1767), bishop of Tournai

References

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