Events in the year 1974 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Roi Baudouin and Reine Fabiola and Philippe Roberts-Jones Inauguration des extensions des MRBAB 19740226 - cropped

Baudouin Baudouin (;, ; nl, Boudewijn Albert Karel Leopold Axel Maria Gustaaf, ; german: Balduin Albrecht Karl Leopold Axel Maria Gustav. 7 September 1930 – 31 July 1993), Dutch name Boudewijn, was King of the Belgians from 17 July 1951 until his dea ...

* Prime Minister: Edmond Leburton (to 25 April);

Leo Tindemans Leonard Clemence "Leo" Tindemans (; 16 April 1922 – 26 December 2014) was a Belgian politician. He served as the prime minister of Belgium serving from 25 April 1974 until he resigned as minister on 20 October 1978. He was a member of the Chri ...

(from 25 April)

Events

* 23 January – Fire at boarding school in

Heusden Heusden () is a municipality and a town in the South of the Netherlands. It is located between the towns of Waalwijk and 's-Hertogenbosch. The municipality of Heusden, including Herpt, Heesbeen, Hedikhuizen, Doeveren, and Oudheusden, merged with ...

kills 23 teenagers. * 10 March –

1974 Belgian general election General elections were held in Belgium on 10 March 1974. The Belgian Socialist Party emerged as the largest faction in the Belgian Chamber of Representatives, Chamber of Representatives with 59 of the 212 seats. Voter turnout was 90.3%.Nohlen & ...

* 24 June –

Robert-Joseph Mathen Robert-Joseph Mathen (1916–1997) was the 28th Bishop of Namur in Belgium. Mathen was born in Aubange on 30 December 1916, and was educated at Collège Saint-Joseph de Virton. He entered the seminary and was ordained to the priesthood on 25 Au ...

becomes

Bishop of Namur The Diocese of Namur is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Belgium. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels. The diocese is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province in the metropolit ...

Art and architecture

;Buildings * Jacques Cuisinier's

Brusilia Residence Brusilia is a curved building in the Schaerbeek district of Brussels, Belgium, next to Josaphat Park. It was designed by the Belgian architect Jacques Cuisinier and built from 1970 to 1974. At 35 stories and tall, it remained the tallest ...

building in Schaerbeek completed (begun 1970)

Births

*19 October – Peter Evrard, singer, winner of Idool 2003

Deaths

References

{{Year in Europe, 1974 1970s in Belgium Belgium Years of the 20th century in Belgium Belgium