1938 in Belgium

Events in the year 1938 in Belgium.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Leopold III
 * Prime Minister – Paul-Émile Janson (to 15 May); Paul-Henri Spaak (from 15 May)

Events

 * 12 March – Henri de Man resigns as finance minister after his fiscal proposals are rejected.
 * 13 May – Paul-Émile Janson's governing coalition falls apart.
 * 15 May – Paul-Henri Spaak forms a government of national unity.
 * 9 October – Municipal elections
 * 11 September – 26th Gordon Bennett Cup held in Liège.

Publications

 * Willem Elsschot, Het Been
 * Marius Valkhoff, Philologie et littérature wallonnes (Gronginen and Batavia, J. B. Wolters)

Art and architecture

 * Buildings
 * Art Deco Flagey Building in Brussels completed.


 * Paintings
 * René Magritte, La Durée poignardée

Births

 * 3 April – Gérard Sulon, footballer (died 2020)

Deaths

 * 14 July – Charles Liebrechts (born 1858), explorer
 * 27 December – Emile Vandervelde (born 1866), politician