1951 in Belgium

Decades:	1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s;
See also:	Other events of 1951; List of years in Belgium

The following events happened during 1951 in the Kingdom of Belgium.

Incumbents

Monarch

- Leopold III (to 16 July), with Prince Baudouin as regent
- Baudouin (from 17 July)

Prime Minister – Joseph Pholien

9 to 10 January – Eisenhower in Belgium.[1]
31 January – Belgian contingent of the United Nations Command for the Korean War disembark at Busan.[2]
18 April – Treaty of Paris signed, establishing the European Coal and Steel Community with Belgium as a member.[3]
25 April – Pope Pius XII makes the Church of Our Lady of Tongre in Chièvres a minor basilica.
16 July – Royal Question culminates with the formal abdication of King Leopold III
17 July – Baudouin of Belgium sworn in as king.[4]
14 October – Relics of Saint Albert of Leuven installed in Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Brussels
5 December – Migration Conference in Brussels adopts the resolution establishing Provisional Intergovernmental Committee for the Movement of Migrants from Europe.[5]

Mari Andriessen, Bomb Victim (1951)

"Eisenhower in Brussels (1951)". British Pathé YouTube Channel. British Pathé. 13 April 2014.
Albert Crahay, Les Belges en Coree, 1951–1955 (La Renaissance du livre, 1967), p. 8.
H.F. van Panhuys, L.J. Brinkhorst, and H.H. Maas (eds.), International Organisation and Integration (Deventer and Leyden, 1968), p. 655.
"Coronation of King Baudouin of Belgium (1951)". British Pathé YouTube Channel. 13 April 2014.
Julinda Beqiraj, "Strengthening the cooperation between IOM and the EU in the field of migration", in Migration in the Mediterranean: Mechanisms of International Cooperation, edited by Francesca Ippolito and Seline Trevisanut (Cambridge University Press, 2016), p. 117.

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