1949 in Belgium

Events from the year 1949 in Belgium

← 1948 1947 1946 1949 in Belgium → 1950 1951 1952
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
See also:	Other events of 1949 List of years in Belgium

Incumbents

• Monarch: Leopold III
• Regent: Prince Charles
• Prime Minister:
  • Paul-Henri Spaak (to 11 August)
  • Gaston Eyskens (from 11 August)

Events

• 4 April – Paul-Henri Spaak signs the North Atlantic Treaty in Washington, D.C.^[1]
• 26 June – 1949 Belgian general election; first in which women fully enfranchised^[2]

Publications

• Léon Kochnitzky, Adolphe Sax and his Saxophone (New York, Belgian Govt. Information Center)^[3]
• Charles Leirens, Belgian Music (New York, Belgian Govt. Information Center)^[4]

Births

• 17 February – Peter Piot, microbiologist
• 24 March – Richard Biefnot, politician (died 2020)
• 21 November – Willy Vande Walle, Japanologist

Deaths

• 15 January – Lu Zhengxiang (born 1871), diplomat, politician and monk