• Source: 1920 in Belgium

Events in the year 1920 in Belgium.




Incumbents



Monarch – Albert I
Prime Minister – Léon Delacroix (to 20 November); Henry Carton de Wiart (from 20 November)




Events



11 February – Colonial University of Belgium founded.
9 April – The Times publishes a special "Belgian number" (pages 33-54) with contributions by many prominent Belgians.
11 May – King Albert and Queen Elisabeth attend the London wedding of Oswald Mosley and Lady Cynthia Curzon.
15 May – Colonial Exhibition opens in Antwerp.
29 July – World War I veterans storm the Palace of the Nation (Parliament building), demanding the government hear their demands for compensation.
14 August to 12 September – 1920 Summer Olympics held in Antwerp.
7 September – Franco-Belgian Accord for mutual defence signed.
23 October – Ernest Demuyter and Mathieu Labrousse win the 9th Gordon Bennett Cup in Birmingham, Alabama




Publications


The Yser and the Belgian Coast (Clermont-Ferrand, Michelin)
André Baillon, Moi quelque part... (Brussels, Soupente)
George Wharton Edwards, Belgium Old & New (Penn Publishing Company)
Charlotte Kellogg, Bobbins of Belgium: A Book of Belgian Lace (New York and London, Funk & Wagnalls)
Charlotte Kellogg, Mercier, the Fighting Cardinal of Belgium (New York and London, D. Appleton and Company)
A. R. Hope Moncrieff, Belgium Past and Present: The Cockpit of Europe (London, A. & C. Black)
G. W. Prothero, Question of the Scheldt (London, H.M. Stationery Office)
Herman Vander Linden, Belgium: The Making of a Nation (Oxford, The Clarendon Press)
Brand Whitlock, Belgium: A Personal Narrative (New York, D. Appleton)




Art and architecture






Births


25 January – Jeanne Brabants, dancer (died 2014)
1 May – Jacques Stiennon, historian (died 2012)
18 June – Aster Berkhof, writer (died 2020)
3 July – Eddy Paape, cartoonist (died 2012)
6 August – Jean de Heinzelin de Braucourt, geologist (died 1998)
18 August – Marcella Pattyn, Beguine (died 2013)
5 September – Jean Tordeur, writer (died 2010)
15 September — Luc Gillon, priest-scientist (died 1998)
21 October – Arnold Boghaert, bishop (died 1993)
12 November – Yvonne Vandekerckhove, swimmer (died 2012)
11 December – Alfons Van Uytven, trade unionist
20 December – Helene Moszkiewiez, resister (died 1998)




Deaths


27 March – Henriette Mayer van den Bergh (born 1838), art collector
30 April – Charles van Rysselberghe (born 1850), architect
25 June – Amadeus de Bie (born 1844), Cistercian abbot
13 December – Oswald Orth (born 1832), literary scholar




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Patronasi
• Tim nasional sepak bola Luksemburg
• Perang Dunia I
• American Relief Administration
• Srinivasa Ramanujan
• Eupen-Malmedy
• Paschasius Radbertus
• Lovis Corinth
• Ilya Repin
• Shiromani Akali Dal
• 1920 in Belgium
• Belgium at the 1920 Summer Olympics
• Franco-Belgian Accord of 1920
• 1920 Summer Olympics
• German-speaking Community of Belgium
• Belgium
• 1920 in the Belgian Congo
• Tennis at the 1920 Summer Olympics
• Belgium national football team
• Football at the 1920 Summer Olympics