1946 in Belgium
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Incumbents
- Monarch: Leopold III
- Regent: Prince Charles
- Prime Minister:
- Achille Van Acker (to 13 March)
- Paul-Henri Spaak (13 March to 31 March)
- Achille Van Acker (31 March to 3 August)
- Camille Huysmans (from 3 August)
Events
- 10 January – Paul-Henri Spaak was elected as the first President of the UN General Assembly[1]
- 17 February – Legislative elections
- 24 February – Provincial elections
- 12 April – Flemish nationalist leader August Borms executed by firing squad as a collaborator[2]
- October – École Royale Technique de la Force Aérienne established outside Sint-Truiden
- 24 November – Municipal elections
Publications
- Fernand Baudhuin, Histoire économique de la Belgique, 1914-1939 (Brussels, E. Bruylant)
- Jan Albert Goris, The Growth of the Belgian Nation (New York, N.Y., Belgian Government Information Center)
- Joseph Lefèvre, L'Angleterre et la Belgique à travers les cinq derniers siècles
- Katharine Roberts, And the bravest of these (Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday & Company)
Births
Deaths
- 21 February – José Streel (born 1911), journalist and Nazi collaborator
- 22 September – Marguerite Putsage (born 1868), painter
