1966 in Belgium

Incumbents

• Monarch: Baudouin
• Prime Minister: Pierre Harmel, Paul Vanden Boeynants

  Events

• 31 January – Clashes between gendarmes and demonstrators from the closing Zwartberg mine leave two colliers dead.
• 10 February – Belgium ratifies London Fisheries Convention.
• 11 February – Pierre Harmel proffers his resignation as prime minister due to internal policy divisions in his Christian Democrat–Socialist coalition.
• 15 February to 9 May – Women at FN Herstal strike for equal pay.
• 15 March – London Fisheries Convention regulating fisheries in the North Sea comes into force.
• 19 March – Paul Vanden Boeynants takes office at the head of a Christian Democrat–Liberal coalition.
• 11 May – Real Madrid defeat FK Partizan in the 1966 European Cup Final at the Heysel Stadium.
• 13 May
• * Belgian bishops issue a declaration rejecting calls to remove the French-language section of the Catholic University of Leuven from the city of Leuven.
• *Elizabeth II visits Langemark to pay her respects at the Saint Julien Memorial to Canadian soldiers of the First World War.
• 2 June – Demonstration in Brussels in support of equal pay for equal work.

  Publications

• OECD, Economic Surveys: Belgium–Luxembourg Economic Union.

  Births

• 9 July – Amélie Nothomb, novelist
• 15 July – Elisa Brune, writer and journalist
• 6 September – Joachim Coens, politician and businessman
• 27 October – Nathalie Loriers, jazz musician
• 5 December – Patrick Ouchène, singer

  Deaths

• 4 January – Georges Theunis, former Prime Minister
• 8 January – Marthe Cnockaert, spy
• 10 March – Émile Coulonvaux, politician
• 29 March – Albert-Édouard Janssen, politician and banker
• 19 April – Albert Servaes, painter
• 29 December – Pierre Nothomb, writer and politician