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Events of the year2019 inBelgium.

• Monarch:Philippe^[1]
• Prime Minister:Charles Michel (to 27 October);Sophie Wilmès (from 27 October)^[2]

• 1 January – Fifteen Flemishmunicipalities merge into seven, the first such merges for several decades
• January – A ban onKosher andhalal slaughter comes into effect in theFlanders region of Belgium. The northern region of Belgium is the first to implement the ban. Similar restrictions will be in place in the southernWallonia region from September.^[3]
• 26 May –European elections,regional elections andfederal election
• 29 May –King Philippe held an official meeting with the leader of the nationalistVlaams Belang party,Tom Van Grieken. According to Belgian media, 1936 was the last time a far-right leader had had an official meeting with the king.^[4]
• 25 July – The hottest day on record in Belgium, with a temperature of 39.7 °C measured at theRoyal Meteorological Institute inUccle and of 41.8 °C inBegijnendijk.^[5]
• 27 October –Sophie Wilmès appointed head of caretaker government: Belgium's first female prime minister.^[2]
• 27 November –Lode Van Hecke,Abbot of Orval, namedbishop of Ghent in succession toLucas Van Looy.^[6]

• 20 May –Dardenne brothers filmYoung Ahmed screened at2019 Cannes Film Festival,^[7] winning themBest Director award.^[8]
• 21 May – Plans to build microbrewery insideGrimbergen Abbey publicised.^[9]

January

• 1 January – Wilfried Verleyen, 87, monastic historian^[10]
• 4 January –Wiet Van Broeckhoven, 69, radio presenter and writer.^[11]
• 18 January –Etienne Vermeersch, 84, moral philosopher.^[12]

February

• 13 February – Willy Willy, rock musician withThe Scabs, dies at age 59.^[13][14]
• 17 February –Claude Renard, 72, comics artist (Ivan Casablanca,1914-1918, Les Anges de Mons) and teacher (founder of Atelier R).^[15]
• 18 February –Bob Van Der Veken, TV actor (De Collega's), dies at age 95.^[16]

March

• 14 March –Godfried Danneels, 85, cardinalMetropolitan Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels and the chairman of theepiscopal conference.^[17][18]

April

• 19 April –Patrick Sercu, 74, cyclist.^[19]

May

• 26 May –Alexis Dragonetti, 50, publisher.^[20]

July

• 17 July –Robert Waseige, 79, association football trainer.^[21]

August

• 4 August – André Goosse, 93, linguist.
• 5 August –Bjorg Lambrecht, 22, cyclist.
• 9 August –José Desmarets, 93, politician.^[22]

September

• 5 September –Charles Jarry, 66, comics artist (Élodie d'Avray,Costa).^[23]

October

• 5 October
  • Rik Pareit, 66, journalist and writer.^[24]
  • Philippe Vandevelde, aka Philippe Tome, 62, comics writer (Le Petit Spirou,Soda, continuedSpirou et Fantasio) and artist (assistant ofDupa,Turk andBob de Groot).^[25]
• 22 October –Marieke Vervoort, 40, athlete.^[26]
• 23 October –Michel Nihoul, Belgian criminal (Dutroux affair), dies at age 78.^[27]

November

• 22 November –Gaston Durnez, 91, journalist, poet, writer and comics writer (De Geschiedenis van Sleenovia,^[28][29] came up with the name of the comics characterDetective Van Zwam byMarc Sleen).^[30]

December

• 7 December –Dani Dacquin, 84, comics artist (Adam en Eva,De Lotgevallen van Lotje,Yoeko).^[31]
• 14 December –Panamarenko, 79, sculptor.^[32]
• 22 December –Freek Neirynck, 70, theatre director, journalist, actor, writer and comics writer.^[33]
• 30 December –André Smets, 76, politician.^[34]

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