1939 in Belgium

Events of the year 1939 in Belgium.

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Decades:

1910s
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s

See also:

Other events of 1939
List of years in Belgium

Incumbents

Monarch: Leopold III[1]
Prime Minister: Paul-Henri Spaak (to 22 February); Hubert Pierlot (from 22 February)

Events

A view of the Exposition internationale de l'eau in Liège from a cable car

9 February – Paul-Henri Spaak's coalition government falls apart
22 February – Hubert Pierlot forms Catholic–Socialist coalition
2 April – 1939 Belgian general election
18 April – Hubert Pierlot forms Catholic–Liberal coalition
25 June – Hermann Lang wins the 1939 Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps
30 July – Exposition internationale de l'eau opens in Liège
25 August – Belgian Armed Forces begin mobilisation
3 September – Hubert Pierlot forms government of national unity

Publications

Hergé, Le Sceptre d'Ottokar (serialised in Le Petit Vingtième from 4 August 1938 to 10 August 1939) published as an album
Georges Simenon, Le Bourgmestre de Furnes
Gerard Walschap, Houtekiet

Art and architecture

Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel (Waterloo)

Buildings

Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel on the Argenteuil Estate in Waterloo

Paintings

René Magritte, The Palace of Memories

Births

21 February – May Claerhout, artist (died 2016)
9 March – Jos Van Gorp, actor (died 2021)
12 April – Philippe Moureaux, politician (died 2018)
9 June – Johan Weyts, politician (died 2021)
3 July – Willy Vanden Berghen, road bicycle racer

Deaths

6 January – Georges Ista (born 1874), writer
15 February – Henri Jaspar (born 1870), politician
6 March – Michel Levie (born 1851), politician
14 March – Marie Haps (born 1879), philanthropist
25 June – Richard Seaman (born 1913), racing driver, dies after crashing in the 1939 Belgian Grand Prix
6 November – Adolphe Max (born 1869), politician
23 November – Gaston-Antoine Rasneur (born 1874), bishop

References

"Leopold III, king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica.

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