The following lists events that happened during 1944 in the Belgian Congo. Governor-General – Pierre Ryckmans Belgian Congo History of the Democratic Republic...

The Belgian Congo (French: Congo belge, pronounced [kɔ̃ɡo bɛlʒ]; Dutch: Belgisch-Congo) was a Belgian colony in Central Africa from 1908 until independence...

The involvement of the Belgian Congo (the modern-day Democratic Republic of the Congo) in World War II began with the German invasion of Belgium in May...

were committed in the Congo Free State (today the Democratic Republic of the Congo) under the absolute rule of King Leopold II of Belgium. These atrocities...

for use in the Congo Free State (1885–1908). After the Free State's annexation by Belgium, the currency continued in the Belgian Congo. The francs were...

responsible for the territory of the Congo Free State and Belgian Congo (today the Democratic Republic of the Congo). Prior to the creation of the Congo Free State...

side. The Belgian Congo remained loyal to the Belgian government in London and contributed significant material and human resources to the Allied cause...

The Force Publique (French: [fɔʁs pyblik], "Public Force"; Dutch: Openbare Weermacht) was the military of the Congo Free State and the Belgian Congo from...

became a defining part of the Franco-Belgian comics tradition. In 1946, Hergé re-drew and coloured Tintin in the Congo in his distinctive ligne-claire...

In 1944, an uprising took place in Kivu in the eastern Belgian Congo. The cause of the revolt lay in Belgian authority's taxation and communal labor policies...

the Belgian Congo fought on the Allied side against the Italians in East Africa. After the liberation of Belgium in September 1944, the Free Belgian forces...

This list covers the equipment of the Belgian Army and the Force Publique of Belgian Congo, but not the Free Belgian Forces or Belgian mainland forces...

February 1959), was a Belgian civil servant who served as Governor-General of Belgium's principal African colony, the Belgian Congo, between 1934 and 1946...

both King Leopold II of Belgium and the critics of the Congo Free State and its atrocities. Leopold was very astute in using the media to support his virtual...

Allies. Despite no longer having authority in its own country, the government administered the Belgian Congo and held negotiations with other Allied powers...

of the Belgians from 17 July 1951 until his death in 1993. He was the last Belgian king to be sovereign of the Congo, before it became independent in 1960...

in the feat of flying their Handley Page W8 F biplane from Brussels, capital of Belgium, to Léopoldville (now Kinshasa), capital of the Belgian Congo...

responsible for the territory of the Congo Free State and Belgian Congo (today the Democratic Republic of the Congo). Prior to the creation of the Congo Free State...

a Belgian colonial lieutenant general who served in both world wars, and a commander of the Force Publique in the Belgian Congo. After joining the Belgian...

Martin Rutten (1876–1944) was a Belgian colonial civil servant and lawyer who served as Governor-General of the Belgian Congo from 1923 to 1927. Martin...

Kivu was the name for a large "region" in the Democratic Republic of the Congo under the rule of Mobutu Sese Seko that bordered Lake Kivu. It included...

Congo, officially the Republic of the Congo or Congo Republic, also known as Congo-Brazzaville, is a country located on the western coast of Central Africa...

State and annexed the territory, making the Congo Free State into the Belgian Congo, a full-fledged colony of Belgium. U.S. and Belgian soldiers fought...

eagerly embraced propaganda in favor of the Congo." King Leopold II of Belgium had been the principal shareholder in the Belgian trading company which established...

independence in 1960 from the Belgian Congo. The Republic of Zaire during 1971–1997 was also named after the river's name in French and Portuguese. The Congo's drainage...

a Belgian nurse who was a volunteer during the Siege of Bastogne in 1944. She worked with the U.S. Army physician John Prior and with fellow Belgian nurse...

: 246 : 612–613  In the 1930s, the Belgian colonial administration established a system of encouraging immigration from Ruanda-Urundi to the eastern Congo, both...

Christianity is the predominant religion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with Catholicism and Protestantism being its main denominations. The Democratic...

The following lists events that happened during 1946 in the Belgian Congo. Governor-general – Pierre Ryckmans, then Eugène Jungers Belgian Congo History...

November 1875 in Oppuurs, Belgium. He was a priest, religious and linguist in the then Belgian Congo. He died on 20 December 1944. De Boeck grew up in Flanders...