1946 in Belgium
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{{Cite web |date=10 January 2023 |title=Today in History: Paul-Henri Spaak elected first President of the UN General Assembly |url=https://www.brusselstimes.com/349185/today-in-history-paul-henri-spaak-elected-first-president-of-the-un-general-assembly |access-date=2023-11-22 |website=brusselstimes.com |language=en}}
- 17 February – Legislative elections
- 24 February – Provincial elections
- 12 April – Flemish nationalist leader August Borms executed by firing squad as a collaborator{{Cite book |last=Littlejohn |first=David |title=The patriotic traitors: a history of collaboration in German-Occupied Europe, 1940-45 |date=1972 |publisher=Heinemann |isbn=978-0-434-42725-3 |location=London |pages=183}}
- 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)
- Katharine Roberts, And the bravest of these (Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday & Company)
Births
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Deaths
- 22 September – Marguerite Putsage (born 1868), painter
References
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