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← 1841 1840 1839 1842 in Belgium → 1843 1844 1845
Decades:	1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s
See also:	Other events of 1842 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1842 in Belgium.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Leopold I
• Prime Minister: Jean-Baptiste Nothomb

Events

• Royal Academy of Archaeology of Belgium founded.
• 23 May – Provincial elections
• 16 July – "Linen convention" exempts Belgian textiles from French protectionist measures in return for a reduction in the Belgian tariff on French wines.
• 23 September – Education Act stipulates that each local authority must maintain at least one primary school.
• 5 November – Belgian-Dutch convention on trade and inland navigation signed in The Hague.

Publications

Periodicals

• Almanach royal de Belgique (Brussels, Librairie Polytechnique)
• Annuaire politique, écclésiastique, judiciaire, noliaire, militaire, administratif et commercial de la Belgique (Brussels, Librairie Polytechnique)
• Messager des sciences historiques (Ghent)
• La renaissance: Chronique des arts et de la littérature, 3.
• Revue de Bruxelles

Monographs and reports

• Statistique de la Belgique: 1831–40 (Brussels)

Births

• 7 May – Isala Van Diest, physician (died 1916)
• 24 August – Edouard Agneessens, painter (died 1885)
• 6 December – Marie Collart, painter (died 1911)

Deaths

• 10 March – Joseph Van Crombrugghe (born 1770), politician
• 6 September – Jean-Baptiste Van Mons (born 1765), pomologist

References

1. Georges-Henri Dumont, Chronologie de la Belgique: De 1830 à nos jours (Le Cri, 2017).
2. C. Pety de Thozée, Système commercial de la Belgique, vol. 2 (Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe, 1875), pp. 10-11.
3. Discussion de la loi sur l'instruction primaire du 23 septembre 1842 (Brussels, 1843) – On Google Books
4. Rapports fait à la Chambre des Représentants, le 23 nov. 1842 par le Ministre des Affaires Étrangères, sur le traité entre la Belgique et les Pays-bas, et la convention de commerce et de navigation intérieure (Brussels, 1842) On Google Books
5. C. Pety de Thozée, Système commercial de la Belgique, vol. 2 (Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe, 1875), pp. 67-68. On Google Books.
6. "Almanach royal de Belgique: Classé et Mis en Ordre Par H. Tarlier". 1842.
7. On Google Books
8. On Google Books
9. Vols. 3-4 on Google Books.
10. vol. 1, vol. 2
11. On Google Books

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