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1943 in Belgium

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1943
in
Belgium

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See also:Other events of 1943
List of years in Belgium

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

Incumbents

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Events

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  • 13 January – Cardinal van Roey issues a pastoral letter condemning terrorism.[2]: 854 
  • 17 January – Léon Degrelle declares that Walloons are ethnically Germanic.[2]: 854 
  • 20 January – Solo airstrike on the Gestapo's Brussels headquarters by Jean de Selys Longchamps.[2]: 855 
  • 27 February – 750 Belgian police officers and gendarmes placed in detention by the occupying forces.[2]: 856 
  • 7 March – Decree obliging students to spend six months as labourers.[2]: 854 
  • 10 March – Decree confiscating church bells to be melted down for metal.[2]: 854 
  • 15 March – Cardinal van Roey issues a pastoral letter condemning the seizure of church bells.[2]: 854 
  • 5 April – Americans bomb Mortsel, killing over a thousand civilians.[2]: 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.[2]: 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.[2]: 855 
  • 6 August – Occupying forces confiscate 60% of Belgian textile stock.[2]: 854 
  • 7 September – Bombing of Brussels destroys over a thousand buildings.[2]: 856 
  • 9 November – Resistance distribute an uncensored counterfeit edition of Le Soir[2]: 856 
  • 6 December – Occupying forces requisition 129,000 tonnes of agricultural produce.[2]: 854 

Arts and architecture

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Performances

Births

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Deaths

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References

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  1. ^ "Leopold III, king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987).