1974 in Belgium

Incumbents

• Monarch: Baudouin
• Prime Minister: Edmond Leburton ; Leo Tindemans

Events

• 23 January – Fire at boarding school in Heusden kills 23 teenagers.
• 10 March – 1974 Belgian general election
• 24 June – Robert-Joseph Mathen becomes Bishop of Namur

Art and architecture

• Jacques Cuisinier's Brusilia building in Schaerbeek completed

Births

• 19 October – Peter Evrard, singer, winner of Idool 2003
• 14 November - Sofie Merckx, politician