1853 in Belgium

:Monarch: Leopold I

:Head of government: Henri de Brouckère

File:Prestation de serment du futur roi Léopold II comme sénateur le 9 avril 1853.jpg, sworn in as a member of the Belgian Senate]]

• 9 April – Prince Leopold sworn in as a member of the Belgian Senate.
• 9 June – Aalst railway station opens.
• 22 August – Marriage of Leopold, Duke of Brabant, heir to the Belgian throne, and Marie Henriette of Austria.Joseph Irving, The Annals of Our Time (London and New York, 1871), p. 389.
• 23 August – International Maritime Conference opens in Brussels under the chairmanship of Adolphe Quetelet and at the instigation of Matthew Fontaine Maury (ends 8 September)Maritime Conference held at Brussels for Devising a Uniform System of Meteorological Observations at Sea (n.p.d.). [https://books.google.com/books?id=0Ys_AAAAcAAJ On Google Books].
• 19 September – First International Statistical Congress opens in Brussels under the chairmanship of Adolphe Quetelet.

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;Periodicals

• Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, H. Tarlier)[https://books.google.com/books?id=z59CAAAAcAAJ Almanach royal] on Google Books.
• Annales de pomologie belge et étrangère (Commission Royale de Pomologie) begins publication.[https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Annales_de_pomologie_belge_et_%C3%A9trang%C3%A8re/Premi%C3%A8re_ann%C3%A9e Vol. 1] on Wikisource (French).
• Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique, vol. 5, edited by Isidore de Stein d'Altenstein[https://books.google.com/books?id=0XFWAAAAcAAJ Annuaire de la noblesse] on Google Books.
• La Belgique Horticole, vol. 3.[https://books.google.com/books?id=V_AXAAAAYAAJ Belgique Horticole] on Google Books.
• Bulletins de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, vol. 20 (Brussels, M. Hayez)[https://books.google.com/books?id=uK9JAAAAcAAJ Bulletins de l'Académie] on Google Books.
• Recueil des pièces imprimées par ordre de la Chambre des Représentants, vol. 3.[https://books.google.com/books?id=zTlDAAAAcAAJ Recueil des pièces] on Google Books.

;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)[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZGIDAAAAQAAJ Bradshaw] on Google Books.
• Francis Coghlan, The Miniature Guide to the Rhine through Belgium and Holland (London, J. Onwhyn)[https://books.google.com/books?id=HmMDAAAAQAAJ Miniature Guide] on Google Books.

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;Buildings

• Aalst railway station

;Paintings

• Henri Leys, Frans Floris Going to a Saint Luke's Day Feast 1540
• Charles Verlat, Buffalo Ambushed by a Tiger
• Antoine Wiertz, Hunger, Madness and Crime

• 31 January – Marie-Elisabeth Belpaire, Flemish activist (died 1948)
• 14 February – Jan Van Rijswijck, politician (died 1906)
• 20 December – Marie Parent, feminist (died 1934)

• 11 January – Floris Nollet (born 1794), engineer
• 18 January – Antoine Payen the Younger (born 1792), painter
• 12 February – Joseph Van Hoorde (born 1818), horticulturalist
• 5 March — Hirsch Sommerhausen (born 1781), educator and translator
• 30 April – Edouard Mary (born 1796), social reformer
• 3 December – Lazare Richtenberger (born 1792), banker

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