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List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1920 in Belgium.

## Incumbents

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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

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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

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* 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

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## Births

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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)

## Deaths

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* 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

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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.

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