1951 in Belgium

Decades:	1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s;
See also:	Other events of 1951; List of years in Belgium

The following events happened during 1951 in the Kingdom of Belgium.

Incumbents

Monarch

- Leopold III (to 16 July), with Prince Baudouin as regent
- Baudouin (from 17 July)

Prime Minister – Joseph Pholien

9 to 10 January – Eisenhower in Belgium.^[1]
31 January – Belgian contingent of the United Nations Command for the Korean War disembark at Busan.^[2]
18 April – Treaty of Paris signed, establishing the European Coal and Steel Community with Belgium as a member.^[3]
16 July – Royal Question culminates with the formal abdication of King Leopold III
17 July – Baudouin of Belgium sworn in as king.^[4]
14 October – Relics of Saint Albert of Leuven installed in Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Brussels
5 December – Migration Conference in Brussels adopts the resolution establishing Provisional Intergovernmental Committee for the Movement of Migrants from Europe.^[5]

^ "Eisenhower in Brussels (1951)". British Pathé YouTube Channel. British Pathé. 13 April 2014.
^ Albert Crahay, Les Belges en Coree, 1951–1955 (La Renaissance du livre, 1967), p. 8.
^ H.F. van Panhuys, L.J. Brinkhorst, and H.H. Maas (eds.), International Organisation and Integration (Deventer and Leyden, 1968), p. 655.
^ "Coronation of King Baudouin of Belgium (1951)". British Pathé YouTube Channel. 13 April 2014.
^ Julinda Beqiraj, "Strengthening the cooperation between IOM and the EU in the field of migration", in Migration in the Mediterranean: Mechanisms of International Cooperation, edited by Francesca Ippolito and Seline Trevisanut (Cambridge University Press, 2016), p. 117.