1944 in Belgium

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

←

Flag of Belgium.svg
 1944
in
Belgium

→

Decades:
  • 1920s
  • 1930s
  • 1940s
  • 1950s
  • 1960s
See also:Other events of 1944
List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1944 in Belgium.

Incumbents[]

  • Monarch: Leopold III[1]
    • Regent: Prince Charles, Count of Flanders (from 21 September)
  • Prime Minister: Hubert Pierlot

Events[]

January
  • 14 January – Occupying German authorities order evacuation of civilians from the Belgian coast.[2]: 857 
  • 16 January – Groupe G resistance organisation dynamites pylons to sabotage electricity supply.[2]: 857 
February
  • 5 February – Occupying authorities streamline procedure for death sentences on charges of "terrorism".[2]: 857 
April
  • 11 April – Heavy allied bombing of industrial targets and transport infrastructure in Belgian cities.[2]: 858 
  • 19 April – Mechelen and Leuven bombed.[2]: 858 
May
  • 21 May – Cardinal Van Roey appeals to Allies to cease bombing civilian targets in Belgium.[2]: 857 
June
  • 7 June – Leopold III, under house arrest since 1940, deported to Germany together with his wife and children.[2]: 858 
July
  • 18 July – Military occupation under General Alexander von Falkenhausen replaced by Reichskommissariat of Belgium and Northern France under Reichskommissar Josef Grohé.[2]: 858 
  • 22 July – Delegates of the Belgian government in exile are among the founding signatories of the Bretton Woods system establishing the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
  • 27 July – Collaborationist leaders Jef van de Wiele and Hendrik Elias meet with Heinrich Himmler.[2]: 857 
August
  • 18 August – Courcelles Massacre in retaliation for the assassination of the collaborationist mayor of Charleroi by the Belgian Resistance.[2]: 859 
  • 31 August – Many Belgian collaborators flee to Germany.[2]: 857 
September
  • 2 September – Allied ground forces enter Belgium.
  • 4 September – Liberation of Brussels and Antwerp; Independent Belgian Brigade (Brigade Piron) enters Brussels.[2]: 858-9 
  • 5 September – Customs Convention between Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg signed.[3]
  • 7 September – Liberation of Liège.[2]: 857 
  • 8 September – Battle of Geel begins (to 23 September)
  • 15 September – Cinemas reopened in liberated parts of Belgium.[2]: 857 
  • 21 September – Prince Charles, Count of Flanders appointed Prince Regent in the king's absence.[2]: 860 
  • 27 September – Government in exile becomes government of national unity.[2]: 857 
October
  • 2 October – Battle of the Scheldt begins (to 8 November)
  • 12 October – First V-1 flying bomb attack on Belgium.[2]: 857 
November
  • 1 November – Operation Infatuate launched
  • 3 November – Last German forces in Belgium surrender at Knokke.[2]: 860 
  • 8 November – Belgian Parliament lifts parliamentary privilege of members of collaborationist organisations.[2]: 857 
  • 18 November – Resistance groups disarmed.[2]: 857 
  • 25 November – Resistance groups demonstrate in Parliament to demand official recognition.[2]: 860 
  • 28 November – Allied shipping starts to use the Port of Antwerp.[2]: 857 
December

Births[]

Deaths[]

  • 14 January – , resistance leader, shot in the street
  • 28 January – Aloïs Biebuyck, officer in the First World War
  • 23 February – Leo Baekeland, chemical engineer
  • 3 March – Paul-Émile Janson, liberal politician (Buchenwald concentration camp)
  • 21 March – Pierre de Caters, aviator
  • 12 April – Emmanuel de Blommaert, Olympic rider
  • 10 May – Adolphe De Meulemeester, colonial official
  • 27 May – Adrienne Barbanson, musical patron
  • 12 August – Suzanne Spaak, resister
  • 17 August – Oswald Englebin, collaborationist mayor of Charleroi, assassinated
  • 20 August – Hippolyte De Kempeneer, film producer
  • 7 October – Abraham Leon, Trotskyist theorist (Auschwitz concentration camp)
  • 1 December – Balthazar De Beukelaer, Olympic fencer
  • 11 December – Joseph Maréchal, Thomist philosopher

References[]

  1. ^ "Leopold III | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987).
  3. ^ H.F. van Panhuys, L.J. Brinkhorst, and H.H. Maas (eds.), International Organisation and Integration (Deventer and Leyden, 1968), p. 978.
Retrieved from ""