1920 in Belgium

← 1919 1918 1917 1920 in Belgium → 1921 1922 1923
Decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
See also:	Other events of 1920 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1920 in Belgium.

Monarch – Albert I

Prime Minister – Léon Delacroix (to 20 November); Henry Carton de Wiart (from 20 November)

• 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

• 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]

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• 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)

• 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

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