1945 in Belgium

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List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1945 in Belgium.

Incumbents[]

  • Monarch: Leopold III,[1] with Prince Charles as regent.
  • Prime Minister: Hubert Pierlot (until 12 February), Achille Van Acker (starting 12 February)

Events[]

January
  • 1 January
  • 2–5 January – The Battle of Bure is fought.
  • 11 January – Socialists leave the government.[2]: 861 
  • 16 January – Wildcat strike in the Port of Antwerp over payment of danger money.[2]: 861 
  • 25 January – The Battle of the Bulge ends.
February
  • 4 February – Liberation of Belgium complete.
  • 7 February – Hubert Pierlot's government resigns.[2]: 861 
  • 12 February – Achille Van Acker heads government of national unity.
March
  • 20 March – Financial agreement signed between National Bank of Belgium and Bank of France.[2]: 861 
April
  • 29 April – General Federation of Belgian Labour founded.[2]: 861 
May
  • 6 May – Central office of the Belgian Socialist Party publicly opposes the return of Leopold III.[2]: 862 
  • 12 May – The Prime Minister and Prince Regent meet with the king to discuss his return.[2]: 861 
  • 14 May – Anti-monarchist rioting in Liège.[2]: 863 
June
  • 9 June – Committees for collective bargaining established.[2]: 861 
  • 14 June – King communicates to the Prime Minister that his health now allows him to return to Belgium.[2]: 861 
  • 15 June – Yser Tower dynamited.[2]: 861 
  • 16 June – Prime Minister proffers his resignation over the issue of the Royal Question.[2]: 861 
July
  • 15 July – Government resumes its activities after the Prince Regent declined to accept the Prime Minister's resignation.[2]: 861 
  • 30 July – National Labour Congress demands 20 per cent pay increases, 8 paid days off each year, and family assistance.[2]: 861 
August
  • 2 August – Catholic Party removed from government of national unity in reshuffle.[2]: 861 
  • 17 August – Forty Belgians among those liberated from the Japanese-run Weixian Internment Camp in northern China.[3]
  • 18 August – Opening of the founding conference of the Christian Social Party.[2]: 864 
September
  • 19 September
    • About 200,000 collaborators deprived of their civil and political rights.[2]: 864 
    • founded under the influence of Herman Teirlinck.[2]: 864 
  • 30 September – Leopold III publicly declares that he will accept whatever the decision of the people will be on his return.[2]: 861 
October
  • 21 October – calls for regional autonomy in the Belgian state.[2]: 864 
November
  • 6 November – Government publishes a white paper on the Royal Question.[2]: 861 
December
  • 27 December – Belgian membership of United Nations ratified.[2]: 865 
  • 28 December –  begins producing cinema newsreels.[2]: 865 

Publications[]

  • Charles Verlinden, Les Empereurs Belges de Constantinople (Brussels, Charles Dessart)

Art and architecture[]

July
  • 3 July – Art association established in Brussels, with , , , Anne Bonnet, Jan Cox, , , , , , and Louis Van Lint among the founding members.[2]: 863 

Births[]

Deaths[]

  • 1 January – Émile Fairon (born 1875), archivist
  • 10 January – August Vermeylen, art historian
  • 11 April – , novelist, in Dachau concentration camp
  • 30 May – , last of the thirteen colonels who headed the Secret Army
  • 23 August – Princess Stéphanie of Belgium
  • 14 December – Victor de Laveleye, liberal politician, newsreader on the BBC's wartime Radio Belgique
  • 27 December – Georges Hulin de Loo, art historian
  • 30 December – Jules Pappaert, footballer

References[]

  1. ^ "Leopold III, king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987).
  3. ^ Michaëla Ngindu (Feb 2019). "Le difficile parcours vers la liberté des Belges enfermés dans les camps japonais". La Libre Belgique (in French).
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