2014 in Belgium

Incumbents

• Monarch: Philippe
• Prime Minister: Elio di Rupo, Charles Michel

  Events

• 13 February – Belgium becomes the first country to legalise euthanasia without any age limits.

• 4 April – 20 people injured as protesters from across Europe clash with police in Brussels at a demonstration against high unemployment.

• 24 May – Jewish Museum of Belgium shooting kills three and seriously injures one in Brussels.
• 25 May – Elections are held for the regional parliaments, the federal parliament and the European Parliament.

• 17 July – Six Belgians among the 298 people on board killed when Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 brought down in Eastern Ukraine near the Russian border.

• 4 August – Representatives of 83 countries mark the centenary of the beginning of the First World War with remembrance ceremonies at the Allied Memorial in Liège and at St Symphorien cemetery.

• 11 October – Michel Government sworn in 138 days after 25 May elections

• 6 November – 100,000-person anti-austerity demonstration in Brussels ends in violence, with 50 people injured and 30 detained

• 3 December – Foreign ministers from members of NATO attend a summit in Belgium to discuss the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine and the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant insurgency.
• 15 December – 24-hour general strike to protest the austerity measures of the Michel Government.

  Sports

• 6 April – Ellen van Dijk wins the Tour of Flanders, a women's road cycling World Cup race.
• 24 August – Daniel Ricciardo wins the 70th Belgian Grand Prix at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in Spa, Belgium

  Deaths

• 2 January – Jeanne Brabants, 93, dancer and choreographer
• 27 February – Jan Hoet, 77, museum curator
• 15 May – Jean-Luc Dehaene, 73, 63rd Prime Minister of Belgium
• 11 August – Simon Leys, 78, diplomat and author
• 29 November – Luc De Vos, 52, Singer of rockband Gorki
• 5 December – Fabiola, 86, Queen-consort of Belgium from 1960 to 1993
• 26 December – Leo Tindemans, 92, 43rd Prime Minister of Belgium