1948 in Belgium

Decades:	1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s;
See also:	Other events of 1948; List of years in Belgium

The following events happened during 1948 in the Kingdom of Belgium.

Incumbents

Monarch – Leopold III, with Prince Charles as regent

Prime Minister – Paul-Henri Spaak

Signatories of the Treaty of Brussels (1948)

1 January – Benelux Customs Convention comes into force.[1]^:978
17 March – Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, establishing the Brussels Pact for economic, social and cultural collaboration and collective self-defence.[1]^:905
29 May – Alfred De Taeye's bill to incentivise the building of new homes passes.[2]
22 August – Order in Council for the implementation of the De Taeye Act.[3]
25 August – Treaty of Brussels, establishing the Brussels Pact for economic, social and cultural collaboration and collective self-defence, comes into effect.[1]^:905
8 October – Agreement of Belgium and Luxembourg with the United States for exchanges under the Fulbright Program.[4]

H.F. van Panhuys, L.J. Brinkhorst, and H.H. Maas (eds.), International Organisation and Integration (Deventer and Leyden, 1968).
Chantal Bisschop, Meer dan boer alleen: Een geschiedenis van de Landelijke Gilden, 1950–1990 (Leuven University Press, 2015), p. 253.
Fredie Floré, "Housing for War Victims, 1946–1948: A Problematic Building Project by the Belgian Government", in Living with History, 1914–1964: Rebuilding Europe After the First and Second Wars, edited by Luc Verpoest
Bulletin de la Classe des lettres et des sciences morales et politiques (Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, 1996), p. 186.
August–September 1948 on Google Books.

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