Events in the year 1977 in Belgium.
Incumbents Monarch: Baudouin Prime Minister: Leo Tindemans
Events 17 April – 1977 Belgian general election 5 September – Athus Steelworks closes. 11 October – Award of Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Ilya Prigogine announced.
Publications J. A. van Houtte, An Economic History of the Low Countries, 800-1800 (London and New York)Reviewed by David Ormrod in Economic History Review, New Series 31:3 (1978), pp. 480-481; by Bryce Lyon in Journal of Modern History, 50:4 (1978), pp. 720-721; by Jan de Vries in Business History Review, 53:3 (1979), pp. 433-434; by Alastair Duke in History, 66:216 (1981), p. 100
Births
9 February – Jurgen Van de Walle, road bicycle racer 21 March – Ilse Heylen, judoka 5 May – Virginie Efira, Belgian and French actress 6 May – Christophe Brandt, cyclist 1 July – Björn Leukemans, road bicycle racer 28 August – Christelle Cornil, actress 8 December – Matthias Schoenaerts, actor
Deaths 30 January – Raoul Van Overstraeten (born 1885), general 29 March – Joseph Lefèvre (born 1893), archivist
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