1948 in Belgium
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The following events happened during 1948 in the Kingdom of Belgium.
Incumbents
- Monarch – Leopold III
- Regent: Prince Charles
- Prime Minister – Paul-Henri Spaak
Events
- 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]
- 1 July – 1948 Keerbergen Fiat G.212 crash
- 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 (Liège, A.S.B.L. Le Grand Liège)[7]
- Paul Peeters, Figures bollandiennes contemporaines (Brussels, Durendal)
Births
- 25 September – Daniel Pelletti, painter (died 2026)
Deaths
- 15 March – Børge Nyrop (born 1881 in Denmark), painter
- 17 September – Prosper Dezitter (born 1893), wartime collaborator
References
- 1 2 3 H.F. van Panhuys, L.J. Brinkhorst, and H.H. Maas (eds.), International Organisation and Integration (Deventer and Leyden, 1968).
- ↑ "Le droit de vote des femmes belges a 75 ans". La Libre. Belga. 21 June 2024. p. 3.
- ↑ Chantal Bisschop, Meer dan boer alleen: Een geschiedenis van de Landelijke Gilden, 1950–1990 (Leuven University Press, 2015), p. 253.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ August–September 1948 on Google Books.
- ↑ Reviewed by M. Bussels in Revue belge de Philologie et d'Histoire, 28:2 (1950), pp. 592-593.
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