1940 in the Belgian Congo

The following lists events that happened during 1940 in the Belgian Congo.

← 1939 1938 1937 1940 in the Belgian Congo → 1941 1942 1943
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s

Incumbent

• Governor-General – Pierre Ryckmans

Events

Date	Event
11 September	François Wenner becomes commissioner of Lusambo Province.
12 November	Jules Fontaine Sambwa, future first commissioner of state of Zaire, is born in Mbandaka.
18 November	Marcel Maquet becomes commissioner of Stanleyville Province.

See also

• Belgian Congo
• History of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Sources

• "Congo (Kinshasa) Provinces", Rulers.org, retrieved 5 August 2020