1954 in Belgium

Incumbents

Events

• 11 April – general election reduces Christian Social Party majority
• 23 April – Socialist-Liberal coalition under Achille Van Acker takes office

• 29-30 August – Minister of Education Léo Collard sacks 110 school teachers with teaching qualifications from Catholic institutions

• 13-18 September – Tenth Solvay Conference on Physics held in Brussels, chaired by Lawrence Bragg

• 23 October – Paris Protocol agreed, transforming the Brussels Pact into the Western European Union.

  Publications

• Hergé, Explorers on the Moon, Tintin album
• Georges Simenon, Maigret à l'école and Maigret et la Jeune Morte

  Art and architecture

• René Magritte, L'Empire des lumières

  Births

• 8 March – Daniel Ducarme, politician
• 10 March – Luc Dardenne, film-maker
• 12 April – Steve Stevaert politician
• 7 May – Philippe Geluck, comedian and cartoonist

  Deaths

• 17 March – Victor Rousseau, sculptor
• 18 April – Denis Verschueren, cyclist
• 18 June – André Benoit, cyclist
• 5 October – Flor Alpaerts, composer