1862 in Belgium

Incumbents

Events

• Chimay Brewery founded
• Belgian Catholic Mission to China established

• 3 March – Leopold I of Belgium writes a letter to the dean of Windsor expressing a desire to be buried alongside his first wife, Princess Charlotte of Wales.
• 29 March – Two members of a criminal gang guillotined in Charleroi.

• 11 April – Belgian Navy abolished.

• 23 July – Anglo-Belgian Treaty of Commerce and Navigation signed.

• 16 September – Victor Hugo's Brussels publisher, Albert Lacroix, holds a banquet to celebrate the success of Les Misérables

  Architecture

• Loppem Castle completed

  Publications

• Almanach royal officiel
• La Belgique Horticole, vol. 12.
• Collection de précis historiques, vol. 11, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J.
• L'Education de la Femme begins publication
• Recueil des lois et arrêtés royaux de Belgique, vol. 49
• Revue belge et étrangère, vol. 13.
• De Vlaemsche school: tijdschrift voor kunsten, letteren, wetenschappen, ouheidskunde en kunstnyverheid, vol. 8.

• Robert Scott Burn, Notes of an Agricultural Tour in Belgium, Holland, & the Rhine

• Maria Doolaeghe, Sinte Godelieve, Vlaemsche legende uit de XIde eeuw
• Guido Gezelle, Gedichten, Gezangen en Gebeden
• Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, published in Brussels, then in Paris and Leipzig by A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven & Cie.
• William Henry James Weale, Restauration des monuments publics en Belgique, second edition

  Births

• 19 June – Paul Saintenoy, architect
• 29 August – Maurice Maeterlinck, author
• 10 December – Georges Hulin de Loo, art historian

  Deaths

• 29 January – Louis-Joseph Seutin, surgeon and senator

• 10 March – Pieter van Hanselaere, painter

• 5 August – Felix de Muelenaere, Catholic politician

• 8 December – Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen, liberal politician