title: 2015 in Belgium
text: # 2015 in Belgium
  
  The following lists events that happened in 2015 in the Kingdom of Belgium.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * Monarch: Philippe
  * Prime Minister: Charles Michel
  
  ## Events
  
  ### January
  
  * January 3 - Belgian media reports that serial rapist and murderer Frank Van Den Bleeken will be euthanised in prison in Bruges on 11 January.
  * January 15 - Belgian police kill two suspected terrorists in an anti-terrorism raid near Verviers.
  
  ### June
  
  * June 28 - A coach driver from Northern Ireland is killed and several teachers and schoolchildren from Brentwood in Essex are injured after a coach crashes near Ostend.
  
  ### November
  
  * November 6 - Resignation of André-Joseph Léonard as archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels comes into effect; Jozef De Kesel, bishop of Bruges, named as his successor.
  * November 21 to 25 - Brussels lockdown in the wake of the November 2015 Paris attacks.
  
  ### December
  
  * December 12 - Jozef De Kesel installed as archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 13 November – Éliane Vogel-Polsky (born 1926) lawyer and feminist
  