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1945 in Belgium
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Events in the year
1945 in
Belgium
.
Incumbents
Monarch
:
Leopold III
[
1
]
Regent:
Prince Charles
.
Prime Minister
:
Hubert Pierlot
(until 12 February),
Achille Van Acker
(starting 12 February)
Events
January
1 January
Operation Bodenplatte
launched.
US troops commit
Chenogne massacre
.
2–5 January –
Battle of Bure
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 –
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
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
October
21 October –
Walloon Congress
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 –
Belgavox
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
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
Births
1 March -
Wilfried Van Moer
, footballer (died 2021)
6 April -
Léon Dolmans
, footballer
22 April -
Eddy Baldewijns
, politician
[
4
]
29 May -
Daniel Van Ryckeghem
, road bicycle racer (died 2008)
12 June -
Henri Xhonneux
, film director (died 1995)
19 August –
Jacques De Decker
, writer (died 2020)
20 September -
Nicolas Dewalque
, footballer
22 September -
Ann Christy (singer)
(died 1984)
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 –
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
See also
Chronology of the liberation of Belgian cities and towns during World War II
References
↑
"Leopold III, king of Belgium"
.
Encyclopedia Britannica
. Retrieved
28 March
2019
.
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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).
↑
"De Kamerleden: Eddy Baldewijns"
(in Dutch). Brussels, Belgium:
Chamber of Representatives
. Archived from
the original
on 24 December 2017
. Retrieved
29 June
2025
.
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