1943 in Belgium
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- Monarch: Leopold III (prisoner)[1]
- 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.[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
- Performances
- 17 March – First performance of Georges Sion's comedy La Matrone d'Ephèse in the Palace of Fine Arts, Brussels.[2]: 854
