1968 in Belgium

Events in the year 1968 in Belgium.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Baudouin
 * Prime Minister: Paul Vanden Boeynants (to 17 July); Gaston Eyskens (from 17 July)

Events

 * 18 January – Flemish students demonstrate against the French-speaking presence in Leuven
 * 7 March – Rassemblement wallon founded
 * 31 March – 1968 Belgian general election
 * April – Ronquières inclined plane taken into use
 * 24 June – Split of the Catholic University of Leuven announced
 * 7 July – Jacky Ickx wins the 1968 French Grand Prix at Rouen-Les-Essarts

Publications

 * Georges Simenon, Maigret hésite

Art and architecture

 * Buildings
 * Sablon Tower completed on the former site of the Maison du Peuple, Brussels

Births

 * 17 August – Bruno van Pottelsberghe, economist
 * – Peter Goes, children's author and illustrator

Deaths

 * 4 January – Joseph Pholien (born 1884), prime minister
 * 25 February – Camille Huysmans (born 1871), prime minister
 * 18 July – Corneille Heymans (born 1892), physiologist, Nobel laureate
 * 4 December – Louise van den Plas (born 1877), feminist