1920 in Belgium
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Incumbents
- Monarch â Albert I
- Prime Minister â Léon Delacroix (to 20 November); Henry Carton de Wiart (from 20 November)
Events
- 11 February â Colonial University of Belgium founded.
- 9 April â The Times publishes a special "Belgian number" (pages 33-54) with contributions by many prominent Belgians.
- 11 May â King Albert and Queen Elisabeth attend the London wedding of Oswald Mosley and Lady Cynthia Curzon.[1]
- 15 May â Colonial Exhibition opens in Antwerp.
- 29 July â World War I veterans storm the Palace of the Nation (Parliament building), demanding the government hear their demands for compensation.[2]
- 14 August to 12 September â 1920 Summer Olympics held in Antwerp.[3]
- 7 September â Franco-Belgian Accord for mutual defence signed.[4]
- 23 October â Ernest Demuyter and Mathieu Labrousse win the 9th Gordon Bennett Cup in Birmingham, Alabama
Publications
- The Yser and the Belgian Coast (Clermont-Ferrand, Michelin)[5]
- André Baillon, Moi quelque part... (Brussels, Soupente)
- George Wharton Edwards, Belgium Old & New (Penn Publishing Company)[6]
- Charlotte Kellogg, Bobbins of Belgium: A Book of Belgian Lace (New York and London, Funk & Wagnalls)[7]
- Charlotte Kellogg, Mercier, the Fighting Cardinal of Belgium (New York and London, D. Appleton and Company)[8]
- A. R. Hope Moncrieff, Belgium Past and Present: The Cockpit of Europe (London, A. & C. Black)[9]
- G. W. Prothero, Question of the Scheldt (London, H.M. Stationery Office)[10]
- Herman Vander Linden, Belgium: The Making of a Nation (Oxford, The Clarendon Press)[11]
- Brand Whitlock, Belgium: A Personal Narrative (New York, D. Appleton)[12]
Births
- 25 January â Jeanne Brabants, dancer (died 2014)
- 1 May â Jacques Stiennon, historian (died 2012)
- 18 June â Aster Berkhof, writer (died 2020)
- 3 July â Eddy Paape, cartoonist (died 2012)
- 6 August â Jean de Heinzelin de Braucourt, geologist (died 1998)
- 18 August â Marcella Pattyn, Beguine (died 2013)
- 5 September â Jean Tordeur, writer (died 2010)
- 15 September â Luc Gillon, priest-scientist (died 1998)
- 21 October â Arnold Boghaert, bishop (died 1993)
- 12 November â Yvonne Vandekerckhove, swimmer (died 2012)
- 11 December â Alfons Van Uytven, trade unionist (died 2008)
- 20 December â Helene Moszkiewiez, resister (died 1998)
Deaths
- 27 March â Henriette Mayer van den Bergh (born 1838), art collector
- 30 April â Charles van Rysselberghe (born 1850), architect
- 25 June â Amadeus de Bie (born 1844), Cistercian abbot
- 13 December â Oswald Orth (born 1832), literary scholar
