4 to 5 April – Constitutional crisis: King Baudouin suspended as king for 36 hours after refusing to sign a law legalising abortion
26 June – City of Antwerp adopts the Globaal structuurplan, a first attempt at structured urban planning for the whole city and regeneration of dockland neighbourhoods.[2]
^Steven Sterkx, "Antwerp", in Cities as Engines of Sustainable Competitiveness: European Urban Policy in Practice, edited by Leo van den Berg, Jan van der Meer and Luis Carvalho (Routledge, 2016).