1996 in Belgium

Incumbents

• Monarch: Albert II
• Prime Minister: Jean-Luc Dehaene

  Events

• 13 August – Child-murderer Marc Dutroux arrested
• 20 October – White March: approximately 300,000 people demonstrate to protest police and judicial inefficiency and demand improved child protection in the wake of the Dutroux affair.

  Publications

• David A. Boileau, Cardinal Mercier: A Memoir
• A. G. Papadopoulos, Urban Regimes and Strategies: Building Europe's Central Executive District in Brussels

  Births

Deaths

• 6 May – Leo Joseph Suenens, cardinal
• 19 May – Charles Verlinden, historian