1948 in Belgium

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

← 1947 1946 1945 1948 in Belgium → 1949 1950 1951
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
See also:	Other events of 1948 List of years in Belgium

Incumbents

• Monarch – Leopold III
• Regent: Prince Charles
• 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
• 27 March – Law fully enfranchising women as voters promulgated^[2]
• 29 May – Alfred De Taeye's bill to incentivise the building of new homes passes.^[3]
• 23 July – Association belge des familles des disparus founded
• 22 August – Order in Council for the implementation of the De Taeye Act.^[4]
• 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.^[5]

Publications

• Belgisch Staatsblad/Moniteur belge^[6]
• Jean Lejeune, Principauté de Liège

Deaths

• 17 September – Prosper Dezitter (born 1893), wartime collaborator