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List of events
Events in the year 1944 in
Belgium.
- January
- 14 January – Occupying German authorities order evacuation of civilians from the Belgian coast.
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- 16 January –
Groupe G resistance organisation dynamites pylons to sabotage electricity supply.
[2]: 857
- February
- 5 February – Occupying authorities streamline procedure for death sentences on charges of "terrorism".
[2]: 857
- April
- 11 April – Heavy allied bombing of industrial targets and transport infrastructure in Belgian cities.
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- 19 April – Mechelen and Leuven bombed.
[2]: 858
- May
- June
- 7 June –
Leopold III, under house arrest since 1940, deported to Germany together with his wife and children.
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- July
- August
- September
- 2 September – Allied ground forces enter Belgium.
- 4 September – Liberation of Brussels and Antwerp;
Independent Belgian Brigade (Brigade Piron) enters Brussels.
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- 5 September – Customs Convention between Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg signed.
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- 7 September – Liberation of Liège.
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- 8 September –
Battle of Geel begins (to 23 September)
- 15 September – Cinemas reopened in liberated parts of Belgium.
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- 21 September –
Prince Charles, Count of Flanders appointed Prince Regent in the king's absence.
[2]: 860
- 27 September – Government in exile becomes government of national unity.
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- October
- November
- 1 November –
Operation Infatuate launched
- 3 November – Last German forces in Belgium surrender at Knokke.
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- 8 November – Belgian Parliament lifts parliamentary privilege of members of collaborationist organisations.
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- 18 November – Resistance groups disarmed.
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- 25 November – Resistance groups demonstrate in Parliament to demand official recognition.
[2]: 860
- 28 November – Allied shipping starts to use the
Port of Antwerp.
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- December
- 14 January –
Walthère Dewé, resistance leader, shot in the street
- 28 January –
Aloïs Biebuyck, officer in the First World War
- 23 February –
Leo Baekeland, chemical engineer
- 3 March –
Paul-Émile Janson, liberal politician (
Buchenwald concentration camp)
- 21 March –
Pierre de Caters, aviator
- 12 April –
Emmanuel de Blommaert, Olympic rider
- 10 May –
Adolphe De Meulemeester, colonial official
- 27 May –
Adrienne Barbanson, musical patron
- 12 August –
Suzanne Spaak, resister
- 17 August – Oswald Englebin, collaborationist mayor of Charleroi, assassinated
- 20 August –
Hippolyte De Kempeneer, film producer
- 7 October –
Abraham Leon, Trotskyist theorist (
Auschwitz concentration camp)
- 1 December –
Balthazar De Beukelaer, Olympic fencer
- 11 December –
Joseph Maréchal, Thomist philosopher
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