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.Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987). 17 January – Léon Degrelle declares that Walloons are ethnically Germanic. 20 January – Solo airstrike on the Gestapo's Brussels headquarters by Jean de Selys Longchamps. 27 February – 750 Belgian police officers and gendarmes placed in detention by the occupying forces. 7 March – Decree obliging students to spend six months as labourers. 10 March – Decree confiscating church bells to be melted down for metal. 15 March – Cardinal van Roey issues a pastoral letter condemning the seizure of church bells. 5 April – Americans bomb Mortsel, killing over a thousand civilians. 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. 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. 6 August – Occupying forces confiscate 60% of Belgian textile stock. 7 September – Bombing of Brussels destroys over a thousand buildings. 9 November – Resistance distribute an uncensored counterfeit edition of Le Soir 6 December – Occupying forces requisition 129,000 tonnes of agricultural produce.
Arts and architecture Performances 17 March – First performance of Georges Sion's comedy La Matrone d'Ephèse in the Palace of Fine Arts, Brussels.
Births 6 March – Noël Devisch, businessman 23 March – Marva Mollet, singer 30 March – Mireille Bastin, painter (died 2026) 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) 27 August – Marcel Neven, politician (died 2026) 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. 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
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