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List of events
Events in the year 1856 in
Belgium.
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Monarch:
Leopold I
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Head of government:
Pierre de Decker
- Paintings
- Periodicals
- Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, Tarlier)
[1]
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Annales de pomologie belge et étrangère, vol. 4.
[2]
[3]
- Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique, vol. 10, edited by
Isidore de Stein d'Altenstein
[4]
- Annuaire statistique et historique belge, vol. 3, edited by
Auguste Scheler
[5]
- Annuaire de l'Académie royale de Belgique, vol. 22
[6]
- La Belgique, 2
[7]
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La Belgique Horticole, vol. 6.
[8]
- Bulletin de la Société de médecine de Gand, vol. 23 (Ghent, Leonard Hebbelynck)
[9]
- Collection de précis historiques, vol. 5, edited by
Edouard Terwecoren S.J.
[10]
- Journal de l'armée belge
[11]
- Journal d'horticulture pratique de la Belgique
[12]
- Official reports and monographs
- Guidebooks and directories
- Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-book for Travellers in Belgium, on the Rhine, and through Portions of Rhenish Prussia (London, W.J. Adams)
[18]
- 5 January –
Omer Bodson, soldier (died 1891)
- 15 January –
Paul de Favereau, politician (died 1922)
- 28 January –
Eva Dell'Acqua, composer (died 1930)
- 5 February –
Thomas Louis Heylen, bishop (died 1941)
- 6 February –
Gerard Portielje, painter (died 1929)
- 17 February –
Joseph Boex, author (died 1940)
- 11 April –
Constant Lievens, Jesuit (died 1893)
- 9 June –
Auguste de Bavay, brewer (died 1944)
- 12 June –
Octave Maus, lawyer (died 1919)
- 18 June –
Edward Génicot, Jesuit (died 1900)
- 26 July –
Edward Anseele, politician (died 1938)
- 1 August –
Frans Hens, artist (died 1928)
- 26 August –
Léon Frédéric, painter (died 1940)
- 9 October –
Sylvain Dupuis, composer (died 1931)
- 27 October –
Albrecht Rodenbach, poet (died 1880)
- 28 December –
Henri de Merode-Westerloo, politician (died 1908)