1944 in Belgium

Incumbents

• Monarch: Leopold III
• * Regent: Prince Charles, Count of Flanders
• Prime Minister: Hubert Pierlot

  Events

• 14 January – Occupying German authorities order evacuation of civilians from the Belgian coast.
• 16 January – Groupe G resistance organisation dynamites pylons to sabotage electricity supply.

• 5 February – Occupying authorities streamline procedure for death sentences on charges of "terrorism".

• 11 April – Heavy allied bombing of industrial targets and transport infrastructure in Belgian cities.
• 19 April – Mechelen and Leuven bombed.

• 21 May – Cardinal Van Roey appeals to Allies to cease bombing civilian targets in Belgium.

• 7 June – Leopold III, under house arrest since 1940, deported to Germany together with his wife and children.

• 18 July – Military occupation under General Alexander von Falkenhausen replaced by Reichskommissariat of Belgium and Northern France under Reichskommissar Josef Grohé.
• 22 July – Delegates of the Belgian government in exile are among the founding signatories of the Bretton Woods system establishing the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
• 27 July – Collaborationist leaders Jef van de Wiele and Hendrik Elias meet with Heinrich Himmler.

• 18 August – Courcelles Massacre in retaliation for the assassination of the collaborationist mayor of Charleroi by the Belgian Resistance.
• 31 August – Many Belgian collaborators flee to Germany.

• 2 September – Allied ground forces enter Belgium.
• 4 September – Liberation of Brussels and Antwerp; Independent Belgian Brigade enters Brussels.
• 5 September – Customs Convention between Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg signed.
• 7 September – Liberation of Liège.
• 8 September – Battle of Geel begins
• 15 September – Cinemas reopened in liberated parts of Belgium.
• 21 September – Prince Charles, Count of Flanders appointed Prince Regent in the king's absence.
• 27 September – Government in exile becomes government of national unity.

• 2 October – Battle of the Scheldt begins
• 12 October – First V-1 flying bomb attack on Belgium.

• 1 November – Operation Infatuate launched
• 3 November – Last German forces in Belgium surrender at Knokke.
• 8 November – Belgian Parliament lifts parliamentary privilege of members of collaborationist organisations.
• 18 November – Resistance groups disarmed.
• 25 November – Resistance groups demonstrate in Parliament to demand official recognition.
• 28 November – Allied shipping starts to use the Port of Antwerp.

• 16 December – German counter-offensive into Belgium: Battle of the Bulge begins with Battle of Lanzerath Ridge, Battle of Losheim Gap, Battle of St. Vith and Battle of Elsenborn Ridge
• 17 December – Malmedy massacre
• 20 December – Siege of Bastogne begins

  Births

• 31 March – Jean-Marie André, scientist
• 5 April – Willy Planckaert, road bicycle racer
• 1 June – Freddy Herbrand, Olympic athlete

  Deaths

• 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
• 21 March – Pierre de Caters, aviator
• 12 April – Emmanuel de Blommaert, Olympic rider
• 27 May – Adrienne Barbanson, musical patron
• 17 August – Oswald Englebin, collaborationist mayor of Charleroi, assassinated
• 20 August – Hippolyte De Kempeneer, film producer
• 7 October – Abraham Leon, Trotskyist theorist
• 1 December – Balthazar De Beukelaer, Olympic fencer
• 11 December – Joseph Maréchal, Thomist philosopher