2014 in Belgium

The following lists events that happened during 2014 in Belgium.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Philippe
 * Prime Minister: Elio Di Rupo (until 11 October), Charles Michel (starting 11 October)

Events

 * January


 * February
 * 13 February – Belgium becomes the first country to legalise euthanasia without any age limits.


 * March


 * April
 * 4 April – 20 people injured as protesters from across Europe clash with police in Brussels at a demonstration against high unemployment.


 * May
 * 24 May – Jewish Museum of Belgium shooting kills three and seriously injures one in Brussels.
 * 25 May – Elections are held for the regional parliaments, the federal parliament and the European Parliament.


 * June


 * July
 * 17 July – Six Belgians (two with dual nationality) among the 298 people on board killed when Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 brought down in Eastern Ukraine near the Russian border.


 * August
 * 4 August – Representatives of 83 countries mark the centenary of the beginning of the First World War with remembrance ceremonies at the Allied Memorial in Liège and at St Symphorien cemetery.


 * September


 * October
 * 11 October – Michel Government sworn in 138 days after 25 May elections


 * November
 * 6 November – 100,000-person anti-austerity demonstration in Brussels ends in violence, with 50 people injured and 30 detained


 * December
 * 3 December – Foreign ministers from members of NATO attend a summit in Belgium to discuss the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant insurgency.
 * 15 December – 24-hour general strike to protest the austerity measures of the Michel Government.

Sports

 * 6 April – Ellen van Dijk wins the Tour of Flanders, a women's road cycling World Cup race.
 * 24 August – Daniel Ricciardo wins the 70th Belgian Grand Prix at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in Spa, Belgium

Deaths

 * 2 January – Jeanne Brabants, 93, dancer and choreographer (b. 1920)
 * 14 January – Alfons Thijs, 69, historian (b. 1944)
 * 27 February – Jan Hoet, 77, museum curator (b. 1936)
 * 15 May – Jean-Luc Dehaene, 73, 63rd Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1940)
 * 11 August – Simon Leys, 78, diplomat and author (b. 1935)
 * 29 November – Luc De Vos, 52, Singer of rockband Gorki (b. 1962)
 * 5 December – Fabiola, 86, Queen-consort of Belgium from 1960 to 1993 (b. 1928)
 * 26 December – Leo Tindemans, 92, 43rd Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1922)