1996 in Belgium

Events from the year 1996 in Belgium

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Albert II
 * Prime Minister: Jean-Luc Dehaene

Events

 * 27 February – A multiple-vehicle collision occurred on the E17 near Nazareth, with 10 deaths the worst traffic accident in Belgium
 * 13 August – Child-murderer Marc Dutroux arrested
 * 20 October – White March: approximately 300,000 people demonstrate to protest police and judicial inefficiency and demand improved child protection in the wake of the Dutroux affair.

Publications

 * David A. Boileau, Cardinal Mercier: A Memoir (Peeters)
 * A. G. Papadopoulos, Urban Regimes and Strategies: Building Europe's Central Executive District in Brussels (University of Chicago Press)

Births

 * November 18 – Joshua Feytons, actor

Deaths

 * 6 May – Leo Joseph Suenens (born 1904), cardinal
 * 19 May – Charles Verlinden (born 1907), historian
 * 29 September – Albert Ayguesparse (born 1900), writer