1947 in Belgium

Events from the year 1947 in Belgium

← 1946 1945 1944 1947 in Belgium → 1948 1949 1950
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
See also:	Other events of 1947 List of years in Belgium

Incumbents

• Monarch: Leopold III, with Prince Charles as regent
• Prime Minister:
  • Camille Huysmans (to 20 March)
  • Paul-Henri Spaak (from 20 March)

Events

• 13 March – Camille Huysmans proffers his resignation as prime minister.

Publications

• Marnix Gijsen (ed.), Belgium under Occupation (New York, Moretus Press for the Belgian Government Information Center)
• Robert E. Merriam, Dark December: The Full Account of the Battle of the Bulge (Chicago, Ziff-Davis)
• Georges Simenon, Maigret se fâche

Births

• 1 April – Philippe Kirsch, Belgian-born Canadian lawyer and judge
• 19 April – Claude Laverdure, writer (died 2020)

Deaths

• 9 February — Anna Kernkamp (born 1868), artist
• 11 March – Édouard Poncelet (born 1965), archivist
• 8 September – Victor Horta (born 1861), architect