1954 in Belgium
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- Monarch – Baudouin[1]
- 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).[2]
Publications
- Hergé, Explorers on the Moon, Tintin album (serialised 1952–1953)
- Georges Simenon, Maigret à l'école and Maigret et la Jeune Morte
