1939 in Belgium

Events of the year 1939 in Belgium.

Incumbents

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

Events

 * 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

 * 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