1943 in Belgium

This is a page of the events in the year 1943 in Belgium.

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Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
See also:	Other events of 1943 List of years 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.
• 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
• 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)
• 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