1944 in Belgium

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

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
June
  • 7 June – Leopold III, under house arrest since 1940, deported to Germany together with his wife and children.[2]:858
July
August
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
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

References

  1. "Leopold III | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
  2. 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.
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