1937 in Belgium
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Incumbents
- Monarch â Leopold III
- Prime Minister â Paul van Zeeland (to 24 November); Paul-Ãmile Janson (from 24 November)
Events
- 22 to 25 May â King Leopold III makes a state visit to Britain.[1]
- 20 June â 25th Gordon Bennett Cup held in Brussels.
Publications
- Hergé, L'Oreille cassée (serialised December 1935 to February 1937)
- Henri Pirenne, Mahomet et Charlemagne (posthumous)
- H. E. Reed, Hogs in Belgian Agriculture (Washington D.C., United States Department of Agriculture Bureau of Agricultural Economics)[2]
Art and architecture
- Buildings
- Raymond Lemaire, Institute of Agriculture, Heverlee
- Paintings
Births
- 1 January â Willy Kuijpers, politician (died 2020)
- 3 November â Gaspard Hons, poet (died 2020)
Deaths
- 8 November â Joseph Mansion (born 1877), philologist
