1954 in Belgium
# 1954 in Belgium

Events in the year 1954 in Belgium.

## Incumbents

* Monarch – Baudouin
* Prime Minister – Jean Van Houtte (to 23 April); Achille Van Acker (from 23 April)

## Events

### April

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

### August

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

### September

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

### October

* 23 October – Paris Protocol agreed, transforming the Brussels Pact into the Western European Union (with Germany and Italy joining).

## Publications

* Hergé, Explorers on the Moon, Tintin album (serialised 1952–1953)
* 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 (died 2010)
* 10 March – Luc Dardenne, film-maker
* 12 April – Steve Stevaert politician (died 2015)
* 7 May – Philippe Geluck, comedian and cartoonist

## Deaths

* 17 March – Victor Rousseau (born 1865), sculptor
* 18 April – Denis Verschueren (born 1897), cyclist
* 18 June – André Benoit (born 1900), cyclist
* 5 October – Flor Alpaerts (born 1876), composer
