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List of events
Events in the year 1940 in
Belgium
- 10 January –
Mechelen incident: German military plane crashes near Maasmechelen.
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- 26 April – King Leopold III rejects the government's resignation.
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- 10 to 28 May –
Battle of Belgium
- 31 May – Belgian parliament in exile meets in
Limoges
- 6 June – Civil-service secretaries-general empowered to keep Belgian ministries running while the government is in exile.
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- 10 June – The
International Red Cross estimates Belgian refugees in France to number 2.2 million.
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- 28 June –
Belgian Labour Party dissolved.
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- 15 August – Newspaper
La Libre Belgique begins clandestine publication.
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- 10 October – Jews banned from public office by decree of the occupying forces.
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- 28 October –
Belgian government in exile, having been dispersed in France, Spain and Switzerland, re-established in London.
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- 19 November – King Leopold III in Berchtesgarden makes a personal appeal to Hitler for the release of Belgian prisoners of war.
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- 22 November – Single overarching trade union established.
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- 2 January –
Florent Bessemans, fencer
- 4 January –
Léon Semmeling, footballer
- 18 January –
Élisabeth Burdot, journalist (died 2021)
- 5 February –
Panamarenko, artist (died 2019)
- 23 February –
Remi Vermeiren, banker
- 12 April –
José Gotovitch, historian (died 2024)
- 24 May –
Hilde Houben-Bertrand, politician
- 6 June –
Nicolas Dumont, Olympic athlete
- 7 July –
Irène Sweyd, Olympic athlete
- 7 August –
Jean-Luc Dehaene, Prime Minister 1992-1999 (died 2014)
- 12 October –
Yvan Covent, cyclist (died 2011)
- 27 December –
William Cliff, poet
- 10 January –
Pierre Imperiali (born 1874), politician
- 27 January –
Léon Frédéric (born 1856), painter
- 30 January –
André Léon Tonnoir (born 1885), entomologist
- 10 February –
Paulin Ladeuze (born 1870), theologian
- 11 February –
Joseph Henri Honoré Boex (born 1856), author
- 22 February –
Eugène Laermans (born 1864), painter
- 14 March –
Flori van Acker (born 1858), painter
- 19 March –
Gustave Sap (born 1886), politician
- 29 April –
Jules Feller (born 1859), academician
- 12 May –
Michel D'Hooghe (born 1912), cyclist
- 20 May –
Joris Van Severen (born 1894), far-right politician
- 18 June –
Robert Feyerick (born 1892), Olympic athlete
- 24 June –
Frédéric-Vincent Lebbe (born 1877), missionary
- 29 August –
Arthur De Greef (born 1862), composer
- 30 August —
Hélène Mallebrancke (born 1902), engineer and resister
- 5 September –
Charles de Broqueville (born 1860), former Prime Minister
- 9 September –
Albert du Roy de Blicquy (born 1869), general
- 23 September –
Marcel Van Crombrugge (born 1880), Olympic athlete
- 7 October –
Marie de Bièvre (born 1865), painter
- 17 October –
Lucien Linden (born 1851), botanist
- 3 November –
Julien Vervaecke (born 1899), cyclist
- 8 November –
Arthur Vierendeel (born 1852), civil engineer
- 16 November –
Léon Dens (born 1869), politician