1947 in Belgium

Events from the year 1947 in Belgium

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Leopold III, with Prince Charles as regent
 * Prime Minister:
 * Camille Huysmans (to 20 March)
 * Paul-Henri Spaak (from 20 March)

Events

 * 13 March – Camille Huysmans proffers his resignation as prime minister.

Publications

 * Marnix Gijsen (ed.), Belgium under Occupation (New York, Moretus Press for the Belgian Government Information Center)
 * Robert E. Merriam, Dark December: The Full Account of the Battle of the Bulge (Chicago, Ziff-Davis)
 * Georges Simenon, Maigret se fâche

Births

 * 1 April – Philippe Kirsch, Belgian-born Canadian lawyer and judge
 * 19 April – Claude Laverdure, writer (died 2020)

Deaths

 * 9 February — Anna Kernkamp (born 1868), artist
 * 11 March – Édouard Poncelet (born 1965), archivist
 * 8 September – Victor Horta (born 1861), architect