• Source: 1943 in Belgium

This is a page of the events in the year 1943 in Belgium.




Incumbents


Monarch: Leopold III (prisoner)
Prime Minister: Hubert Pierlot (in exile)
Head of the occupying Military Administration in Belgium and Northern France: Alexander von Falkenhausen
Head of the administrative staff of the Occupation: Eggert Reeder




Events


13 January – Cardinal van Roey issues a pastoral letter condemning terrorism.: 854 
17 January – Léon Degrelle declares that Walloons are ethnically Germanic.: 854 
20 January – Solo airstrike on the Gestapo's Brussels headquarters by Jean de Selys Longchamps.: 855 
27 February – 750 Belgian police officers and gendarmes placed in detention by the occupying forces.: 856 
7 March – Decree obliging students to spend six months as labourers.: 854 
10 March – Decree confiscating church bells to be melted down for metal.: 854 
15 March – Cardinal van Roey issues a pastoral letter condemning the seizure of church bells.: 854 
5 April – Americans bomb Mortsel, killing over a thousand civilians.: 855 
19 April – Members of the Resistance briefly stop a deportation train carrying Jewish prisoners to Auschwitz concentration camp.
20 April – Resistance attack on the office for conscription of compulsory labour destroys a large part of their files.: 855 
16 July – Honoré Van Waeyenbergh, Rector of the Catholic University of Leuven, sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment for refusing to give the occupying forces access to university enrolment records.: 855 
6 August – Occupying forces confiscate 60% of Belgian textile stock.: 854 
7 September – Bombing of Brussels destroys over a thousand buildings.: 856 
9 November – Resistance distribute an uncensored counterfeit edition of Le Soir: 856 
6 December – Occupying forces requisition 129,000 tonnes of agricultural produce.: 854 




Arts and architecture


Performances
17 March – First performance of Georges Sion's comedy La Matrone d'Ephèse in the Palace of Fine Arts, Brussels.: 854 




Births


6 March – Noël Devisch, businessman
23 March – Marva Mollet, singer
5 April – Miet Smet, politician
14 April – Norbert De Cuyper, politician
25 April – Jean-Jacques Cassiman, geneticist
3 June – André Ernotte, film director (died 1999)
2 July – Walter Godefroot, cyclist
5 July – André Smets, politician (died 2019)
1 September – Claude De Bruyn, road safety advocate (died 2020)
1 October – Raymond Langendries, politician
5 October – Josly Piette, politician
1 November – Salvatore Adamo, singer
25 November – Victor Albert, politician (died 2005)
1 December – Danny Huwé, journalist (died 1989)




Deaths


27 January – Louis Fonsny, collaborationist newspaper editor.: 854 
15 April – Paul Colin (born 1895), collaborationist art critic
10 May – Arnaud Fraiteur (born 1924), resistance fighter
16 August – Jean de Selys Longchamps (born 1912), fighter pilot
8 October – Gustave De Smet (born 1877), painter




References

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• Royal Antwerp F.C.
• Arthur Devère
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• George MacQuarrie
• Holokaus di Yunani
• Lierse Kempenzonen
• Pembantaian Kragujevac
• Pertempuran Belgia
• Ma Fuxiang
• Kota terbuka
• 1943 in Belgium
• 1943 in the Belgian Congo
• 1943
• 1943–44 Belgian First Division
• Demographics of Belgium
• List of Special Operations Executive operations
• German-speaking Community of Belgium
• Belgium in World War II
• 1943 steel cent
• Burma campaign