1968 in Belgium

Incumbents

• Monarch: Baudouin
• Prime Minister: Paul Vanden Boeynants ; Gaston Eyskens

  Events

• 18 January – Flemish students demonstrate against the French-speaking presence in Leuven
• 7 March – Rassemblement wallon founded
• 31 March – 1968 Belgian general election
• April – Ronquières inclined plane taken into use
• 24 June – Split of the Catholic University of Leuven announced
• 7 July – Jacky Ickx wins the 1968 French Grand Prix at Rouen-Les-Essarts

  Publications

• Georges Simenon, Maigret hésite

  Art and architecture

• Sablon Tower completed on the former site of the Maison du Peuple, Brussels

  Births

• 17 August – Bruno van Pottelsberghe, economist

  Deaths

• 4 January – Joseph Pholien, prime minister
• 25 February – Camille Huysmans, prime minister
• 18 July – Corneille Heymans, physiologist, Nobel laureate
• 4 December – Louise van den Plas, feminist