1920 in Belgium

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See also:Other events of 1920
List of years 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[]

Poster for the Antwerp Olympics
  • 11 February – Colonial University of Belgium founded.
  • 11 May – King Albert and Queen Elisabeth attend the London wedding of Oswald Mosley and Lady Cynthia Curzon.[1]
  • 29 July – 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 – 1920 Summer Olympics held in Antwerp.[3]
  • 7 September – Franco-Belgian Accord for mutual defence signed.[4]
  • 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)[5]
  • , 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]

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)
  • 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[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Royal Visitors Arrive by Air". britishpathe.com. British Pathé. 15 May 1920.
  2. ^ "100 jaar geleden: de eerste en laatste bestorming van het Belgische parlement". VRTNWS. 27 January 2021.
  3. ^ Olympic Games Handbook (New York, American Sports Publishing co., 1921)
  4. ^ Emile Vandervelde, Belgian Foreign Policy and the Nationalities Question, Foreign Affairs, July 1933.
  5. ^ "The Yser and the Belgian coast ." Clermont-Ferrand : Michelin et cie. Dec 16, 1920 – via Internet Archive.
  6. ^ "Belgium Old & New". The Penn publishing company. Dec 16, 1920 – via Internet Archive.
  7. ^ Kellogg, Charlotte Hoffman (Dec 16, 1920). "Bobbins of Belgium; a book of Belgian lace, lace-workers, lace-schools and lace-villages". New York, London, Funk & Wagnalls – via Internet Archive.
  8. ^ Kellogg, Charlotte (Dec 16, 1920). "Mercier, the fighting cardinal of Belgium". New York, London : D. Appleton and Company – via Internet Archive.
  9. ^ Moncrieff, A. R. Hope (Ascott Robert Hope) (Dec 16, 1920). "Belgium past and present : the cockpit of Europe". London : A. & C. Black – via Internet Archive.
  10. ^ "Question of the Scheldt". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.
  11. ^ Linden, H. vander (Herman vander); Jane, Sybil (Dec 16, 1920). "Belgium, the making of a nation". Oxford : The Clarendon Press – via Internet Archive.
  12. ^ Whitlock, Brand (Dec 16, 1920). "Belgium; a personal narrative". New York D. Appleton – via Internet Archive.
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