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See also:Other events of 1948
List of years in Belgium

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

Incumbents

Monarch – Leopold III, with Prince Charles as regent
Prime Minister – Paul-Henri Spaak

Events

Signatories of the Treaty of Brussels (1948)
  • 1 January – Benelux Customs Convention comes into force.[1]: 978 
  • 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.[1]: 905 
  • 29 May – Alfred De Taeye's bill to incentivise the building of new homes passes.[2]
  • 23 July – Association belge des familles des disparus foundeed
  • 22 August – Order in Council for the implementation of the De Taeye Act.[3]
  • 25 August – Treaty of Brussels, establishing the Brussels Pact for economic, social and cultural collaboration and collective self-defence, comes into effect.[1]: 905 
  • 8 October – Agreement of Belgium and Luxembourg with the United States for exchanges under the Fulbright Program.[4]

Publications

Deaths

References

  1. 1 2 3 H.F. van Panhuys, L.J. Brinkhorst, and H.H. Maas (eds.), International Organisation and Integration (Deventer and Leyden, 1968).
  2. ↑ Chantal Bisschop, Meer dan boer alleen: Een geschiedenis van de Landelijke Gilden, 1950–1990 (Leuven University Press, 2015), p. 253.
  3. ↑ 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
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ August–September 1948 on Google Books.
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