title: 1963 in Belgium
text: # 1963 in Belgium
  
  Events in the year 1963 in Belgium.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * Monarch: Baudouin
  * Prime Minister: Théo Lefèvre
  
  ## Events
  
  * 2 August – Division of Belgium into four linguistically defined territories comes into force.
  
  ## Publications
  
  * Hergé, Les Bijoux de la Castafiore album (serialised July 1961 to September 1962)
  
  ## Births
  
  * 9 March – Yves Vander Cruysen, historian and local politician (died 2020)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 30 May – Marthe Crick-Kuntziger (born 1891), museum curator
  