1979 in Belgium

Incumbents

• Monarch: Baudouin
• Prime Minister: Paul Vanden Boeynants ; Wilfried Martens

  Events

• 13 June – In Marckx v Belgium the European Court of Human Rights finds for the plaintiff, Paula Marckx, that Belgian inheritance law is unfair to unmarried mothers and their children.
• 25 June – Red Army Faction fail to assassinate Alexander Haig, Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, with a bomb in Casteau

  Births

Deaths

• 10 May – Louis Paul Boon, novelist