1954 in Belgium

Events in the year 1954 in Belgium.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Baudouin
 * Prime Minister – Jean Van Houtte (to 23 April); Achille Van Acker (from 23 April)

Events

 * April
 * 11 April – general election reduces Christian Social Party majority
 * 23 April – Socialist-Liberal coalition under Achille Van Acker takes office


 * August
 * 29-30 August – Minister of Education Léo Collard sacks 110 school teachers with teaching qualifications from Catholic institutions


 * September
 * 13-18 September – Tenth Solvay Conference on Physics held in Brussels, chaired by Lawrence Bragg


 * October
 * 23 October – Paris Protocol agreed, transforming the Brussels Pact into the Western European Union (with Germany and Italy joining).

Publications

 * Hergé, Explorers on the Moon, Tintin album (serialised 1952–1953)
 * Georges Simenon, Maigret à l'école and Maigret et la Jeune Morte

Art and architecture

 * René Magritte, L'Empire des lumières

Births

 * 8 March – Daniel Ducarme, politician (died 2010)
 * 10 March – Luc Dardenne, film-maker
 * 12 April – Steve Stevaert politician (died 2015)
 * 7 May – Philippe Geluck, comedian and cartoonist

Deaths

 * 17 March – Victor Rousseau (born 1865), sculptor
 * 18 April – Denis Verschueren (born 1897), cyclist
 * 18 June – André Benoit (born 1900), cyclist
 * 5 October – Flor Alpaerts (born 1876), composer