1945 in Belgium
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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
- Operation Bodenplatte is launched.
- The Chenogne massacre is committed.
- 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
- 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[]
- 1 March - Wilfried Van Moer, footballer
- 6 April - Léon Dolmans, footballer
- 29 May - Daniel Van Ryckeghem, road bicycle racer
- 12 June - Henri Xhonneux, film director
- 19 August – Jacques De Decker, writer (died 2020)
- 20 September - Nicolas Dewalque, footballer
- 22 September - Ann Christy (singer)
- 25 September - Frans Janssens, footballer
- 6 October - Luc Sanders, footballer
- 16 November - Jan Bucquoy, anarchist
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[]
- ^ "Leopold III, king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
- ^ 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).
- ^ 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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