2009 in Belgium

Incumbents

• Monarch: Albert II
• Prime Minister: Herman Van Rompuy to 15 November; from 25 November Yves Leterme

  Events

• 4 January – Johan Bonny consecrated as bishop of Antwerp.
• 23 January – Dendermonde nursery attack

• 11 February – With 5,000 present, the Fortis shareholders' meeting to vote on the break-up and sale of the company to the Dutch and Belgian governments was the largest shareholders' meeting in Belgian history.
• 26 February – Franco-Belgian bank Dexia announces 3.3 billion euros of net losses for 2008.

• 4 March – Association belge des familles des disparus wound up.

• 11 October – Father Damien canonised by Pope Benedict XVI, in the presence of King Albert II, Queen Paola, and Herman Van Rompuy.

• 15 November – Herman Van Rompuy resigns as Prime Minister in order to become President of the European Council; Van Rompuy Government ends.
• 25 November – Leterme II Government sworn in.

  Deaths

• 4 January - Lei Clijsters, footballer, father of Kim Clijsters.
• 2 February - Louis Proost, cyclist.
• 4 March - Patricia De Martelaere, writer.
• 6 March - Henri Pousseur, composer.