1951 in Belgium
| |||||
| Decades: | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| See also: | Other events of 1951 List of years in Belgium | ||||
The following events happened during 1951 in the Kingdom of Belgium.
Incumbents
[edit]- Monarch –
- Leopold III (until 16 July), with Prince Baudouin as regent
- Baudouin (from 17 July)
- Prime Minister – Joseph Pholien
Events
[edit]
- 9 to 10 January – Eisenhower in Belgium.[1]
- 31 January – Belgian contingent of the United Nations Command for the Korean War disembark at Busan.[2]
- 18 April – Treaty of Paris signed, establishing the European Coal and Steel Community with Belgium as a member.[3]
- 25 April – Pope Pius XII makes the Church of Our Lady of Tongre in Chièvres a minor basilica.
- 16 July – Royal Question culminates with the formal abdication of King Leopold III
- 17 July – Baudouin sworn in as King.[4]
- 14 October – Relics of Saint Albert of Leuven installed in Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Brussels
- 5 December – Migration Conference in Brussels adopts the resolution establishing Provisional Intergovernmental Committee for the Movement of Migrants from Europe.[5]
Art and architecture
[edit]
- Sculpture
- Mari Andriessen, Bomb Victim (Middelheim Open Air Sculpture Museum)
- Alfred Courtens, Equestrian Statue of Albert I, Brussels
Births
[edit]- 5 April – Frank Moulaert, Flemish academic
- 10 June – Lucien De Brauwere, cyclist (died 2020)
Deaths
[edit]- 20 December – Valerius Coucke (born 1888), biblical scholar
References
[edit]- ^ "Eisenhower in Brussels (1951)". British Pathé YouTube Channel. British Pathé. 13 April 2014.
- ^ Albert Crahay, Les Belges en Coree, 1951–1955 (La Renaissance du livre, 1967), p. 8.
- ^ H.F. van Panhuys, L.J. Brinkhorst, and H.H. Maas (eds.), International Organisation and Integration (Deventer and Leyden, 1968), p. 655.
- ^ "Coronation of King Baudouin of Belgium (1951)". British Pathé YouTube Channel. 13 April 2014.
- ^ Julinda Beqiraj, "Strengthening the cooperation between IOM and the EU in the field of migration", in Migration in the Mediterranean: Mechanisms of International Cooperation, edited by Francesca Ippolito and Seline Trevisanut (Cambridge University Press, 2016), p. 117.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1951 in Belgium.
