• Source: 1926 in Belgium

Events in the year 1926 in Belgium.




Incumbents


Monarch – Albert I
Prime Minister – Prosper Poullet (to 8 May); Henri Jaspar (from 20 May)




Events



Refoundation of Orval Abbey
7 January – Flooding along the river Meuse, particularly in Liège.
21 January – The Belgian Parliament accepts the Locarno Treaties.
31 January – Belgian troops withdraw from German occupation zone.
8 May – Government led by Prosper Poullet falls.
20 May – Government of national unity formed under Henri Jaspar.
30 May – 15th Gordon Bennett Cup held in Antwerp.
23 July – National Railway Company of Belgium founded.
10 October – Municipal elections
20 October – Treaty establishing free movement of labour between Belgium and Luxembourg signed at Luxembourg.
4 November – Civil registration of wedding between Prince Leopold of Belgium, Duke of Brabant and Princess Astrid of Sweden in Stockholm
10 November – Blessing of the union of Prince Leopold and Princess Astrid in Brussels minster.
15 November – Inauguration of the equestrian statue of Leopold II in Brussels.




Publications


Albert Giraud, Le Concert dans le musée
Franz Hellens, Le Naïf




Art and architecture






= Buildings

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Le Corbusier, Maison Guiette, Antwerp




= Film

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De Boma à Tshela, a documentary silent film




Births


4 February – Albert Frère, businessman (died 2018)
20 February – Bobby Jaspar, jazz saxophonist (died 1963)
27 February – Luc Alfons de Hovre, bishop (died 2009)
21 March – André Delvaux, film director (died 2002)
14 April – Henri Kichka, Holocaust survivor (died 2020)
26 June – Paul Sobol, Holocaust survivor (died 2020)
5 July – Éliane Vogel-Polsky, lawyer and feminist (died 2015)
14 July – Guy Vandenbranden, artist (died 2014)
16 July – Emile Degelin, film director and novelist (died 2017)
27 August – Paula D'Hondt, politician
29 August – Jean Bourguignon, inventor (died 1981)
12 September – Paul Janssen, pharmacologist (died 2003)
29 October – Maurice Blomme, cyclist (died 1980)
30 October – Jacques Swaters, racing driver (died 2010)




Deaths


23 January – Désiré-Joseph Mercier (born 1851), cardinal
2 December – Gérard Cooreman (born 1852), prime minister
14 December – Théo van Rysselberghe (born 1862), painter
16 December – Hippolyte Fierens-Gevaert (born 1870), art historian
27 December – François Poels (born 1881), trade unionist




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Royal Antwerp F.C.
• Jozef-Ernest van Roey
• Perang Dunia I
• Daftar kontes kecantikan
• Rencana XVII
• François Bédarida
• Negara Bebas Kongo
• K.M.S.K. Deinze
• Irfan Shahîd
• Megalodon
• 1926 in Belgium
• 1926 in the Belgian Congo
• 1926–27 Belgian First Division
• 1926
• National Railway Company of Belgium
• 1926–27 in Belgian football
• Belgian Pro League
• D'Hondt
• Demographics of Belgium
• Rail transport in Belgium