1986 in Belgium
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Incumbents
Events
- January
- 1 January – Breakout of 14 inmates from Arlon prison.[2]: 1008
- 25 January – About 3,000 gendarmes demonstrate in Brussels for better working conditions.[2]: 1008
- February
- 5 February – Publication of a report into working practices in the Belgian postal service reveals massive inefficiency.[2]: 2008
- March
- 17 March – Albert Houssiau appointed bishop of Liège by Pope John Paul II
- April
- 12 April – About 20,000 march in Hasselt to demand that Limburg's mines be kept open.[2]: 1009
- 15 April – Prime Minister Wilfried Martens and Deputy Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt lay the first stone of the Flanders Expo convention centre in Ghent.[2]: 1011
- 29 April – R.W.D. Molenbeek football club goes into receivership.[2]: 1008
- May
- 3 May – Sandra Kim wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1986 singing "J'aime la vie".[2]: 1009
- 18 May – Albert Houssiau consecrated bishop of Liège
- 29 May – The Flag of Europe first flown in front of the Commission of the European Communities in Brussels.[2]: 1010
- 30 May – About 50,000 protest against government austerity measures in a demonstration organised by the General Federation of Belgian Labour.[2]: 1009
- June
- 25 June – Former prime minister Paul Vanden Boeynants convicted of fraud.[2]: 1010
- 30 June – Massive public celebration of the return of the Belgium national football team after placing fourth in the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico.[2]: 1010
- October
- 12 October – Renovated La Monnaie opera house reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.[2]: 1010
- 18 October – Interior Minister Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb resigns in protest over the government's stance on the language struggle in Voeren.[2]: 1011
- 21 October – An accident occurs in Kwaadmechelen with a Transnuklear transport from Krümmel Nuclear Power Plant to SCK CEN in Mol. Nuclear waste being transported does not correspond to the documents, later bringing a bribery scandal to light.[3]
- 26 October – German-speaking Community Council election
- November
- 14 November – Hugo Claus receives the Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren for The Sorrow of Belgium.[2]: 1010
- December
- 12 December – A bank robber shot by police in Anderlecht turns out to be a policeman himself.[2]: 1011
Publications
- Reference series
- Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 44 (supplement 16).
- OECD, Economic Surveys, 1985/1986: Belgium, Luxembourg[4]
- Books
- Jonathan E. Helmreich, Gathering Rare Ores: The Diplomacy of Uranium Acquisition, 1943–1954 (Princeton University Press)
Art and architecture
- Films
- Chantal Akerman (dir.), Golden Eighties
Births
- 13 February – Sylvie De Caluwé, model
- 21 February – Prince Amedeo of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este
- 13 March – Ludovic Buysens, footballer
- 20 April – Onur Kaya, footballer
- 1 August – Michaël Van Geele, footballer
- 15 October – Sandra Kim, singer
- 22 October – Murat Akın, footballer
- 3 December – Annelien Coorevits, beauty queen
Deaths
- 7 February – Armand Preud'homme, composer
- 3 April – Charles Moeller, scholar
- 2 June – Daniel Sternefeld, conductor
- 6 July – Flor Peeters, organist
- 23 August – Charles Janssens, actor
- 5 October – Jozef van Overstraeten, founder of the Flemish automobile association
- 16 October – Arthur Grumiaux, violinist
- 16 December – Marcel Quinet, composer
- 27 December – Louis Van Lint, painter
- 28 December – Karel Aerts, director of the BRT
