1999 in Belgium

←

1999
in
Belgium

→

Decades:

1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s

See also:

Other events of 1999
List of years in Belgium

Events from the year 1999 in Belgium

Incumbents

Monarch: Albert II
Prime Minister: Jean-Luc Dehaene (to 12 July); Guy Verhofstadt (from 12 July)

Events

May – Dioxin affair comes to light
13 June – 1999 Belgian federal election
12 July – Verhofstadt I Government sworn in
2 August – Yaguine Koita and Fodé Tounkara discovered dead at Brussels Airport
4 December – Wedding of Prince Philippe and Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz

Publications

Amélie Nothomb, Stupeur et tremblements (winner of the 1999 Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française)
Philippe Roberts-Jones, Brussels: Fin de Siècle (Cologne: Taschen)
Robert Stallaerts, Historical Dictionary of Belgium (Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press)
Raymond van Uytven, Studies over Brabantse kloostergeschiedenis (Brussels: Algemeen Rijksarchief, 1999)

Births

2 August – Emma Bale, singer
27 August – Mile Svilar, footballer

Deaths

22 January – Paul Cammermans (born 1921), film maker
20 February – Frans Grootjans (born 1922), politician
16 August – Paul Serruys (born 1912), missionary
10 September – Michèle Fabien (born 1945), writer
17 December – Henri Storck (born 1907), film maker

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1999 in Belgium.

Years in Belgium
Pre-1800 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830 1831 1832 1833 1834 1835 1836 1837 1838 1839 1840 1841 1842 1843 1844 1845 1846 1847 1848 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1856 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900
1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021

1999 in Europe
Sovereign states	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Monaco Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia San Marino Serbia and Montenegro Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom Vatican City
States with limited recognition	Abkhazia Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Northern Cyprus South Ossetia Transnistria
Dependencies, colonies and other territories	Åland Faroe Islands Gibraltar Guernsey Isle of Man Jersey

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.