← 1830 1829 1828 1831 in Belgium → 1832 1833 1834
Decades:	1830s 1840s 1850s
See also:	Other events of 1831 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year1831 inBelgium.

Monarch –Leopold I (from 21 July)

Head of government –Etienne Constantin de Gerlache (27 February–10 March),Joseph Lebeau (10 March–24 July),Félix de Muelenaere (from 24 July)

February

• 3 February –Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours, elected king of the Belgians but declined the honour.^[1]
• 5 February –Jan van Speyk explodes his gunboat in the port of Antwerp
• 7 February –National Congress approves theConstitution of Belgium
• 27 February –Etienne Constantin de Gerlache takes office as head of government

March

• 10 March –Joseph Lebeau replacesEtienne Constantin de Gerlache as head of government

June

• 26 June – At theConference of London the fivegreat powers (Austria, Britain, France, Prussia, Russia) finalise theTreaty of the Eighteen Articles, an unsuccessful peace proposal for Belgium and the Netherlands

July

• 12 July –Leopold, Prince of Coburg, elected king of the Belgians.^[1]
• 19 July – Leopold arrives in Brussels.^[1]
• 21 July – Leopold sworn in as King of the Belgians.^[1]
• 24 July –Félix de Muelenaere replacesJoseph Lebeau as head of government

August

• 2–12 August –Ten Days' Campaign – Dutch attempt to re-establish rule over Belgium fails, but Dutch forces retain control ofAntwerp Citadel.
  • 8 August –Battle of Hasselt
  • 12 August –Battle of Leuven
• 29 August –Belgian general election, 1831, first elections for theBelgian Parliament

• Almanach de poche de Bruxelles (Brussels, M.-E. Rampelbergh)^[2]
• Joseph Jean De Smet,Nouvelle géographie, second edition (Ghent, Vanryckgem-Hovaere)^[3]
• Auguste Voisin,Guide des voyageurs dans la ville de Gand, ou Notice historique sur cette ville, ses monumens, ses institutions, sa statistique, etc. (Ghent, Louis De Busscher)^[4]

• 11 April –Euphrosine Beernaert, landscape painter (died 1901)
• 12 April –Constantin Meunier, painter and sculptor (died 1905)
• 25 April –Edmond Reusens, archaeologist (died 1903)
• 30 May – Louis Roersch, philologist (died 1891)
• 8 July –Antoine-Félix Bouré, monumental sculptor (died 1883)
• 29 July –Léopold Harzé, sculptor (died 1893)
• 26 September –François-Joseph Scohy, archaeologist (died 1881)
• 30 September –Joseph Delboeuf, psychologist (died 1896)

• 15 January –François de Méan (born 1756), archbishop of Mechelen
• 27 March –Jean Kickx (born 1775), botanist and mineralogist
• 5 April –Pierre Léonard Vander Linden (born 1797), entomologist
• 21 November –Marie Anne Simonis (born 1758), industrialist

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