The following events happened during 1948 in the Kingdom of Belgium.

Incumbents Monarch – Leopold III Regent: Prince Charles Prime Minister – Paul-Henri Spaak

Events

1 January – Benelux Customs Convention comes into force.H.F. van Panhuys, L.J. Brinkhorst, and H.H. Maas (eds.), International Organisation and Integration (Deventer and Leyden, 1968). 17 March – Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, establishing the Brussels Pact for economic, social and cultural collaboration and collective self-defence. 27 March – Law fully enfranchising women as voters promulgated 29 May – Alfred De Taeye's bill to incentivise the building of new homes passes.Chantal Bisschop, Meer dan boer alleen: Een geschiedenis van de Landelijke Gilden, 1950–1990 (Leuven University Press, 2015), p. 253. 1 July – 1948 Keerbergen Fiat G.212 crash 23 July – Association belge des familles des disparus founded 22 August – Order in Council for the implementation of the De Taeye Act.Fredie Floré, "Housing for War Victims, 1946–1948: A Problematic Building Project by the Belgian Government", in Living with History, 1914–1964: Rebuilding Europe After the First and Second Wars, edited by Luc Verpoest 25 August – Treaty of Brussels, establishing the Brussels Pact for economic, social and cultural collaboration and collective self-defence, comes into effect. 8 October – Agreement of Belgium and Luxembourg with the United States for exchanges under the Fulbright Program.Bulletin de la Classe des lettres et des sciences morales et politiques (Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, 1996), p. 186.

Publications Belgisch Staatsblad/Moniteur belgeAugust–September 1948 on Google Books. Jean Lejeune, Principauté de Liège (Liège, A.S.B.L. Le Grand Liège)Reviewed by M. Bussels in Revue belge de Philologie et d'Histoire, 28:2 (1950), pp. 592-593. Paul Peeters, Figures bollandiennes contemporaines (Brussels, Durendal)

Births 25 September – Daniel Pelletti, painter (died 2026)

Deaths 15 March – Børge Nyrop (born 1881 in Denmark), painter 17 September – Prosper Dezitter (born 1893), wartime collaborator

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