Events in the year 1974 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Monarch: Baudouin Prime Minister: Edmond Leburton (to 25 April); Leo Tindemans (from 25 April)

Events 23 January – Fire at boarding school in Heusden kills 23 teenagers. 10 March – 1974 Belgian general election 24 June – Robert-Joseph Mathen becomes Bishop of Namur

Art and architecture

Buildings Jacques Cuisinier's Brusilia building in Schaerbeek completed (begun 1970)

Births 19 October – Peter Evrard, singer, winner of Idool 2003 14 November - Sofie Merckx, politician

Deaths

11 July – Karel Maes (born 1900), artist

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