← 1937 1936 1935 1938 in Belgium → 1939 1940 1941
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	Other events of 1938 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1938 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Monarch – Leopold III

Prime Minister – Paul-Émile Janson (to 15 May); Paul-Henri Spaak (from 15 May)

Events

• 12 March – Henri de Man resigns as finance minister after his fiscal proposals are rejected.
• 13 May – Paul-Émile Janson's governing coalition falls apart.
• 15 May – Paul-Henri Spaak forms a government of national unity.
• 9 October – Municipal elections
• 11 September – 26th Gordon Bennett Cup held in Liège.

Publications

• Willem Elsschot, Het Been
• Marius Valkhoff, Philologie et littérature wallonnes (Gronginen and Batavia, J. B. Wolters)^[1]

Art and architecture

Buildings

• Art Deco Flagey Building in Brussels completed.

Paintings

• René Magritte, La Durée poignardée

Births

• 3 April – Gérard Sulon, footballer (died 2020)

Deaths

• 14 July – Charles Liebrechts (born 1858), explorer
• 27 December – Emile Vandervelde (born 1866), politician