1948 in Belgium

← 1947 1946 1945 1948 in Belgium → 1949 1950 1951
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
See also:	Other events of 1948 List of years in Belgium

The following events happened during 1948 in the Kingdom of Belgium.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Leopold III
• Regent: Prince Charles
• Prime Minister – Paul-Henri Spaak

Events

Signatories of the Treaty of Brussels (1948)

• 1 January – Benelux Customs Convention comes into force. ^{[1] : 978}
• 17 March – Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, establishing the Brussels Pact for economic, social and cultural collaboration and collective self-defence. ^{[1] : 905}
• 27 March – Law fully enfranchising women as voters promulgated ^[2]
• 29 May – Alfred De Taeye's bill to incentivise the building of new homes passes. ^[3]
• 23 July – Association belge des familles des disparus founded
• 22 August – Order in Council for the implementation of the De Taeye Act. ^[4]
• 25 August – Treaty of Brussels, establishing the Brussels Pact for economic, social and cultural collaboration and collective self-defence, comes into effect. ^{[1] : 905}
• 8 October – Agreement of Belgium and Luxembourg with the United States for exchanges under the Fulbright Program. ^[5]

Publications

• Belgisch Staatsblad/Moniteur belge ^[6]
• Jean Lejeune, Principauté de Liège

Deaths

• 17 September – Prosper Dezitter (born 1893), wartime collaborator

References

1. H.F. van Panhuys, L.J. Brinkhorst, and H.H. Maas (eds.), International Organisation and Integration (Deventer and Leyden, 1968).
2. "Le droit de vote des femmes belges a 75 ans". La Libre . Belga. 21 June 2024. p. 3.
3. Chantal Bisschop, Meer dan boer alleen: Een geschiedenis van de Landelijke Gilden, 1950–1990 (Leuven University Press, 2015), p. 253.
4. Fredie Floré, "Housing for War Victims, 1946–1948: A Problematic Building Project by the Belgian Government", in Living with History, 1914–1964: Rebuilding Europe After the First and Second Wars, edited by Luc Verpoest
5. Bulletin de la Classe des lettres et des sciences morales et politiques (Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, 1996), p. 186.
6. August–September 1948 on Google Books.