1958 in Belgium

Decades:	1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s;
See also:	Other events of 1958; List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1958 in Belgium.

Incumbents

3 February – Treaty creating Benelux Economic Union signed, to come into force 1 November 1960, providing for free movement of workers, capital, services, and goods between Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.^[3]

11 March – Prince Albert takes his seat in the Senate.^[2]^: 904
12 March – Fud Leclerc comes sixth in the Eurovision Song Contest, singing "Ma petite chatte".
18 March – Atomium completed.^[2]^: 904

4 April – Tourist information office opens on the Place de Brouckère, Brussels.^[4]^: 175
12 April – Bokrijk open-air museum opens.
17 April – King Baudouin opens Expo 58, the first major World's Fair since the Second World War.^[4]^: 184 John Carl Studder of El Paso, Texas, had queued for 48 hours to be the first visitor admitted.^[2]^: 904

18 May
- Demonstration of about 200,000 marches through Brussels to protest the Socialist government's education policy.^[2]^: 904
- A Douglas DC-7 on a Sabena flight to Léopoldville crashes in Casablanca, with 65 fatalities and 4 survivors.^[2]^: 904
28 May – Real Madrid wins the European Cup Final against A.C. Milan in the Heysel Stadium, Brussels

1 June – General election held: Christian Democrats become the largest group in parliament.
15 June
- Tony Brooks wins the 19th Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps.
- Brussels Film Festival opens, with Georges Simenon chairing the jury.^[2]^: 907
22 June – Olivier Gendebien, partnered with Phil Hill in the Scuderia Ferrari team, comes first in the 24 Hours of Le Mans.^[2]^: 906
26 June
- 45th Tour de France starts in Brussels.^[4]^: 164
- Gaston Eyskens (Christian Social Party) replaces Achille Van Acker (Socialist Party) as Prime Minister.^[2]^: 906

9 September – USS Skate (SSN-578) ceremonially welcomed in Zeebrugge after its Arctic mission.^[2]^: 906
25 September – Belgian government intervenes to reduce the price of Belgian coal, with 7,855,000 tonnes stockpiled but uncompetitively expensive on international markets.^[2]^: 906

4 October – Sabena breaks Brussels–Paris air speed record with an S58 helicopter.^[2]^: 904
10 October – Patrice Lumumba founds Mouvement National Congolais.^[2]^: 906
12 October – Municipal elections; Christian Social Party makes gains.^[2]^: 904
19 October – Expo 58 closes.^[4]^: 171

6 November – Political agreement reached on post-war reforms to educational policy, ending a period of contention known as the "Second School War".
28 November – Patrice Lumumba declares in Léopoldville that "Independence is not a gift of Belgium but a fundamental right of the Congolese people."^[2]^: 904

1 December – Francis Walder awarded the Prix Goncourt for his Saint-Germain ou la négociation.^[2]^: 907
11 December – Dominique Pire receives the Nobel Peace Prize.^[5]

Léon Kochnitzky, Negro Art in the Belgian Congo (New York, Belgian Government Information Center)^[7]

20 August – First performance of Gian Carlo Menotti's Maria Golovin at Expo58.^[2]^: 904

Nature documentary Les Seigneurs de la forêt^[2]^: 907 – English version with narration by Orson Welles distributed internationally by 20th Century Fox as Lords of the Forest (UK) or Masters of the Congo Jungle (US)

^ "Baudouin I | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987).
^ H.F. van Panhuys, L.J. Brinkhorst, and H.H. Maas (eds.), International Organisation and Integration (Deventer and Leyden, 1968), p. 978.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Gonzague Pluvinage, Expo 58: Between Utopia and Reality (Racine, 2008)
^ "The Nobel Peace Prize 1958".
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- African Film Festival of Cordoba-FCAT (license CC BY-SA-3.0)
^ "Negro Art in the Belgian Congo". New York, Belgian Government Information Center. 1958.