title: 1966 in Belgium
text: # 1966 in Belgium
  
  Events in the year 1966 in Belgium.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * Monarch: Baudouin
  * Prime Minister: Pierre Harmel (until 19 March), Paul Vanden Boeynants (from 19 March)
  
  ## 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.
  
  ## Art
  
  * René Magritte La Décalcomanie
  
  ## Births
  
  * 26 January – Conny Aerts, astrophysicist
  * 25 April – Eliane Tillieux, politician
  * 9 July – Amélie Nothomb, novelist
  * 15 July – Elisa Brune, writer and journalist (died 2018)
  * 6 September – Joachim Coens, politician and businessman
  * 27 October – Nathalie Loriers, jazz musician
  * 5 December – Patrick Ouchène, singer
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 4 January – Georges Theunis (born 1873), former Prime Minister
  * 8 January – Marthe Cnockaert (born 1892), spy
  * 10 March – Émile Coulonvaux (born 1892), politician
  * 29 March – Albert-Édouard Janssen (born 1883), politician and banker
  * 19 April – Albert Servaes (born 1883), painter
  * 5 December – Sylvère Maes (born 1909), racing cyclist
  * 29 December – Pierre Nothomb (born 1887), writer and politician
  