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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

16 December – German counter-offensive into Belgium: Battle of the Bulge begins with Battle of Lanzerath Ridge, Battle of Losheim Gap, Battle of St. Vith and Battle of Elsenborn Ridge
17 December – Malmedy massacre
20 December – Siege of Bastogne begins (to 27 December)

Births

31 March – Jean-Marie André, scientist
5 April – Willy Planckaert, road bicycle racer
1 June – Freddy Herbrand, Olympic athlete
8 October – Maurice Bodson, politician (died 2020)
21 December – Jacques Beurlet, footballer (died 2020)

Deaths

14 January – Walthère Dewé, 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

"Leopold III | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987).
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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