1945 in Belgium

Decades:	1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s;
See also:	Other events of 1945; List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1945 in Belgium.

Incumbents

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.

20 March – Financial agreement signed between National Bank of Belgium and Bank of France.[2]^:861

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

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

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

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

19 September
- About 200,000 collaborators deprived of their civil and political rights.[2]^:864
- National Theatre of Belgium 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

21 October – Walloon Congress calls for regional autonomy in the Belgian state.[2]^:864

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

3 July – Art association Jeune peinture belge established in Brussels, with Willy Anthoons, René Barbaix, Gaston Bertrand, Anne Bonnet, Jan Cox, Jack Godderis, Emile Mahy, Marc Mendelson, Charles Pry, Mig Quinet, Rik Slabbinck and Louis Van Lint among the founding members.[2]^:863

1 January – Émile Fairon (born 1875), archivist
10 January – August Vermeylen, art historian
11 April – Kamiel Van Baelen, novelist, in Dachau concentration camp
30 May – Roger Libbrecht, 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

"Leopold III, king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
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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