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

Henry Carton de Wiart, Prime Minister of Belgium 1920–1921

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.
• 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.^[1]
• 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.^[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]
• 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]

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

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.
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.