1942 in Belgium

Events in the year 1942 in Belgium

← 1941 1940 1939 1942 in Belgium → 1943 1944 1945
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
See also:	Other events of 1942 List of years in Belgium

Incumbents

• Monarch (in captivity): Leopold III
• Prime Minister (in exile): Hubert Pierlot
• Head of German occupying forces: Alexander von Falkenhausen
• Head of the administrative staff of the Occupation: Eggert Reeder

Events

• 1 January – Belgian government in exile becomes a signatory of the Atlantic Charter.
• 3 January – Occupying forces prohibit listening to radio broadcasts not subject to German control.
• 21 January – Eleven hostages killed by the occupying forces.
• 25 January – Temperatures reach 12 below zero Celsius.
• 6 March – Decree issued for the recruitment of forced labour for German factories.
• 10 March – Walloon Legion parades in Brussels.
• 1 April – Hendrik de Man opposes the unified trade union
• 5 April – Court of Cassation finds that secretaries-general, civil servants appointed to lead ministries in the absence of the government, have no legislative powers, annulling the decree of 15 February 1941 instituting administrative legislation.
• 9 April – Decree obliging miners to work Sundays and feast days.
• 16 April – Decree prohibits the establishment of new businesses or expansion of existing businesses.
• 9 May – Daily meat ration reduced from 35 grammes to 20 grammes.
• 27 May – Decree obliging Jews to wear an identifying Star of David.
• 2 July – Prime Minister in exile broadcasts an appeal to all Belgians to defend their country.
• 13 July – Secret meetings between representatives of the Christian Democrat, Liberal and Labour parties to discuss post-war policy.
• 18 July – Booksellers receive a list of 1,470 titles that they are no longer permitted to stock or sell.
• 26 July – A hundred Communists detained for deportation to Germany.
• 31 August – Belgian section of the Red Orchestra dismantled.
• 6 October – All men aged between 18 and 50 obliged to find work either in Belgium or in Germany.

Births

• 18 July – Prince Alexandre of Belgium (died 2009)
• 20 September – Robbe De Hert, film director (died 2020)
• 2 May – Jacques Rogge, 8th President of the International Olympic Committee (died 2021)

Deaths

• 22 January – Reimond Tollenaere (born 1909), collaborator
• 3 April – Paul Gilson (born 1865), composer
• 22 October – Staf De Clercq (born 1884), quisling