2014 in Belgium

Incumbents

• Monarch: Philippe
• Prime Minister: Elio Di Rupo, Charles Michel

Events

• 13 February – Belgium becomes the first country to legalise euthanasia without any age limits.

• 4 April – 20 people injured as protesters from across Europe clash with police in Brussels at a demonstration against high unemployment.

• 24 May – Jewish Museum of Belgium shooting kills three and seriously injures one in Brussels.
• 25 May – Elections are held for the regional parliaments, the federal parliament and the European Parliament.

• 17 July – Six Belgians among the 298 people on board killed when Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 brought down in Eastern Ukraine near the Russian border.

• 4 August – Representatives of 83 countries mark the centenary of the beginning of the First World War with remembrance ceremonies at the Allied Memorial in Liège and at St Symphorien cemetery.

• 11 October – Michel Government sworn in 138 days after 25 May elections

• 6 November – 100,000-person anti-austerity demonstration in Brussels ends in violence, with 50 people injured and 30 detained

• 3 December – Foreign ministers from members of NATO attend a summit in Belgium to discuss the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant insurgency.
• 15 December – 24-hour general strike to protest the austerity measures of the Michel Government.

Sports

• 6 April – Ellen van Dijk wins the Tour of Flanders, a women's road cycling World Cup race.
• 24 August – Daniel Ricciardo wins the 70th Belgian Grand Prix at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in Spa, Belgium

Deaths

• 2 January – Jeanne Brabants, 93, dancer and choreographer
• 14 January – Alfons Thijs, 69, historian
• 19 January – Damien Yzerbyt, 50, politician
• 18 February – Kristof Goddaert, 27, road racing cyclist
• 19 February – Norbert Beuls, 57, footballer and football manager
• 27 February – Jan Hoet, 77, museum curator
• 1 March – Paul Tant, 68, politician
• 8 March – Gerard Mortier, 70, opera director and administrator
• 12 March – Jean Vallée, 72, songwriter and performer
• 25 March – Lode Wouters, 84, cyclist
• 31 March – Roger Somville, 90, modern painter
• 9 April – Jos Chabert, 81, politician
• 15 May – Jean-Luc Dehaene, 73, 63rd Prime Minister of Belgium
• 24 May – Jean-Claude Pirotte, 74, writer, poet and painter
• 26 July – Roland Verhavert, 87, film director
• 11 August – Simon Leys, 78, diplomat and author
• 18 August – Jean Nicolay, 76, footballer
• 30 August – Igor Decraene, 18, cyclist
• 18 September – Olivier Vanneste, 84, politician and economist
• 20 September – Pino Cerami, 92, road bicycle racer
• 22 September – Flor Van Noppen, 58, politician
• 3 October – Ward Ruyslinck, 85, writer
• 23 October – André Piters, 83, footballer
• 9 November – Willy Monty, 75, racing cyclist
• 29 November – Luc De Vos, 52, Singer of rockband Gorki
• 5 December – Fabiola, 86, Queen-consort of Belgium from 1960 to 1993
• 26 December – Leo Tindemans, 92, 43rd Prime Minister of Belgium
• 27 December – Jacques Vandenhaute, 83, politician
• 27 December – Karel Poma, 94, liberal politician