Events in the year 1850 in Belgium.
Incumbents
Monarch: Leopold I
Head of government: Charles Rogier
Events
Sint-Lodewijkscollege established in Lokeren
14 February – Treaty of commerce and navigation with the Russian Empire signed in Berlin. 5 May – National Bank of Belgium founded 27 May - Provincial elections 11 June – Partial legislative elections 25 July – Scourmont Priory established 4 August – Mediation by the King of the Belgians leads to the restoration of diplomatic relations between Spain and the United Kingdom. 25 September – King Leopold lays the first stone of the Congress Column in Brussels 31 October – Treaty of commerce and navigation with Bolivia signed in Brussels
Publications
Periodicals
Almanach de poche de Bruxelles
Almanach royal officiel
Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique, edited by Isidore de Stein d'Altenstein (Brussels, Muquardt) Recueil des lois et arrêtés royaux de la Belgique, vol. 21 (Brussels, E. Devroye). Revue de Bruxelles ceases publication
Books
Félix Victor Goethals, Dictionnaire généalogique et héraldique des familles nobles du Royaume de Belgique, vol. 3. Adolphe Joanne, Voyage en Orient (Ixelles lez Bruxelles, Delevingne & Callewaert) Edouard Mary, Epîtres en vers sur la Belgique. Jean-Joseph Thonissen, Le Socialisme et ses promesses (2 volumes) Pierre-Joseph van Beneden, Recherches sur la faune littorale de Belgique: Les vers cestoïdes ou acotyles (Brussels, Hayez)
Art and architecture
Paintings
Jan August Hendrik Leys, Divine Service in Holland
Births
5 January – Theodoor Verstraete, artist (died 1907) 30 January – Emma De Vigne, painter (died 1898) 20 February – Eugène Joors, painter (died 1910) 20 March – Marietta Hannon Rousseau, mycologist (died 1926) 14 April – Fredegand Cogels, politician (died 1932) 9 May – Fernande de Mertens, painter (died 1924) 8 October – Léon Herbo, painter (died 1907) 4 November – Jules Bilmeyer, architect (died 1920) 17 November – Hippolyte d'Ursel, politician and historian (died 1937) 29 December – Frans Van Leemputten, painter (died 1914)
Deaths
29 April – Charles de Brouckère (born 1757), politician
5 September – Paul-François Huart-Chapel (born 1770), industrialist and politician 11 October – Queen Louise (born 1812)