1945 in Belgium

Events in the year 1945 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Monarch: Leopold III{{cite web |title=Leopold III, king of Belgium |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leopold-III-king-of-Belgium |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=28 March 2019 |language=en}}
Regent: Prince Charles.
Prime Minister: Hubert Pierlot (until 12 February), Achille Van Acker (starting 12 February)

;January

1 January
Operation Bodenplatte launched.
US troops commit Chenogne massacre.
2–5 January – Battle of Bure fought.
11 January – Socialists leave the government.Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987).{{rp|861}}
16 January – Wildcat strike in the Port of Antwerp over payment of danger money.{{r|Kroniek|p=861}}
25 January – Battle of the Bulge ends.

;February

;March

20 March – Financial agreement signed between National Bank of Belgium and Bank of France.{{r|Kroniek|p=861}}

;April

;May

6 May – Central office of the Belgian Socialist Party publicly opposes the return of Leopold III.{{r|Kroniek|p=862}}
12 May – The Prime Minister and Prince Regent meet with the king to discuss his return.{{r|Kroniek|p=861}}
14 May – Anti-monarchist rioting in Liège.{{r|Kroniek|p=863}}

;June

9 June – Committees for collective bargaining established.{{r|Kroniek|p=861}}
14 June – King communicates to the Prime Minister that his health now allows him to return to Belgium.{{r|Kroniek|p=861}}
15 June – Yser Tower dynamited.{{r|Kroniek|p=861}}
16 June – Prime Minister proffers his resignation over the issue of the Royal Question.{{r|Kroniek|p=861}}

;July

15 July – Government resumes its activities after the Prince Regent declined to accept the Prime Minister's resignation.{{r|Kroniek|p=861}}
30 July – National Labour Congress demands 20 per cent pay increases, 8 paid days off each year, and family assistance.{{r|Kroniek|p=861}}

;August

2 August – Catholic Party removed from government of national unity in reshuffle.{{r|Kroniek|p=861}}
17 August – Forty Belgians among those liberated from the Japanese-run Weixian Internment Camp in northern China.{{Cite web|url=https://dossiers.lalibre.be/le-difficile-parcours-vers-la-liberte-des-belges-enfermes-dans-les-camps-japonais/login.php|title=Le difficile parcours vers la liberté des Belges enfermés dans les camps japonais|author=Michaëla Ngindu|newspaper=La Libre Belgique|date=Feb 2019|language=fr}}
18 August – Opening of the founding conference of the Christian Social Party.{{r|Kroniek|p=864}}

;September

19 September
About 200,000 collaborators deprived of their civil and political rights.{{r|Kroniek|p=864}}
National Theatre of Belgium founded under the influence of Herman Teirlinck.{{r|Kroniek|p=864}}
30 September – Leopold III publicly declares that he will accept whatever the decision of the people will be on his return.{{r|Kroniek|p=861}}

;October

21 October – Walloon Congress calls for regional autonomy in the Belgian state.{{r|Kroniek|p=864}}

;November

6 November – Government publishes a white paper on the Royal Question.{{r|Kroniek|p=861}}

;December

Charles Verlinden, Les Empereurs Belges de Constantinople (Brussels, Charles Dessart)

;July

1 January – Émile Fairon (born 1875), archivist
10 January – August Vermeylen, art historian
11 April – Kamiel Van Baelen, novelist, in Dachau concentration camp
30 May – Roger Libbrecht, last of the thirteen colonels who headed the Secret Army
23 August – Princess Stéphanie of Belgium
14 December – Victor de Laveleye, liberal politician, newsreader on the BBC's wartime Radio Belgique
27 December – Georges Hulin de Loo, art historian
30 December – Jules Pappaert, footballer