1948 in Belgium

Decades:	1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s;
See also:	Other events of 1948; List of years in Belgium

The following events happened during 1948 in the Kingdom of Belgium.

Incumbents

Monarch – Leopold III, with Prince Charles as regent

Prime Minister – Paul-Henri Spaak

1 January – Benelux Customs Convention comes into force.^[1]^: 978
17 March – Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, establishing the Brussels Pact for economic, social and cultural collaboration and collective self-defence.^[1]^: 905
27 March – Law fully enfranchising women as voters promulgated^[2]
29 May – Alfred De Taeye's bill to incentivise the building of new homes passes.^[3]
23 July – Association belge des familles des disparus foundeed
22 August – Order in Council for the implementation of the De Taeye Act.^[4]
25 August – Treaty of Brussels, establishing the Brussels Pact for economic, social and cultural collaboration and collective self-defence, comes into effect.^[1]^: 905
8 October – Agreement of Belgium and Luxembourg with the United States for exchanges under the Fulbright Program.^[5]

^ ^a ^b ^c H.F. van Panhuys, L.J. Brinkhorst, and H.H. Maas (eds.), International Organisation and Integration (Deventer and Leyden, 1968).
^ "Le droit de vote des femmes belges a 75 ans". La Libre. Belga. 21 June 2024. p. 3.
^ Chantal Bisschop, Meer dan boer alleen: Een geschiedenis van de Landelijke Gilden, 1950–1990 (Leuven University Press, 2015), p. 253.
^ Fredie Floré, "Housing for War Victims, 1946–1948: A Problematic Building Project by the Belgian Government", in Living with History, 1914–1964: Rebuilding Europe After the First and Second Wars, edited by Luc Verpoest
^ Bulletin de la Classe des lettres et des sciences morales et politiques (Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, 1996), p. 186.
^ August–September 1948 on Google Books.