1968 in Belgium

← 1967 1966 1965 1968 in Belgium → 1969 1970 1971
Decades:	1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
See also:	Other events of 1968 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1968 in Belgium.

• Monarch: Baudouin^[1]
• Prime Minister: Paul Vanden Boeynants (to 17 July); Gaston Eyskens (from 17 July)

• 18 January – Flemish students demonstrate against the French-speaking presence in Leuven
• 7 March – Rassemblement wallon founded
• 31 March – 1968 Belgian general election
• April – Ronquières inclined plane taken into use
• 24 June – Split of the Catholic University of Leuven announced
• 7 July – Jacky Ickx wins the 1968 French Grand Prix at Rouen-Les-Essarts

• Georges Simenon, Maigret hésite

Buildings

• Sablon Tower completed on the former site of the Maison du Peuple, Brussels

• 17 August – Bruno van Pottelsberghe, economist
• – Peter Goes, children's author and illustrator

• 4 January – Joseph Pholien (born 1884), prime minister
• 25 February – Camille Huysmans (born 1871), prime minister
• 18 July – Corneille Heymans (born 1892), physiologist, Nobel laureate
• 4 December – Louise van den Plas (born 1877), feminist

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