Events in the year 1936 in Belgium.
Incumbents
Monarch: Leopold III Prime Minister: Paul van Zeeland
Events January – Remains of Father Damien shipped to Belgium for reburial 24 May – Legislative elections 7 June – Provincial elections September – Sixth Catholic Congress in Mechelen DeVlag (Deutsch-Vlämische Arbeitsgemeinschaft) founded to facilitate cultural exchange with Nazi Germany
Publications Emmanuel d'Hooghvorst, J’accuse Léon Degrelle Maurice Grevisse, Le Bon Usage Hergé, Le Lotus bleu (serialised 1934–35) published as an album Charles Plisnier, Mariages Georges Simenon, 45° à l'ombre, Les Demoiselles de Concarneau, L'Évadé, Long Cours Felix Timmermans, Het Vlaamsche volksleven volgens Pieter Breughel
Art Paul Delvaux, Le Miroir, Femme dans une grotte, La Fenêtre, La Rose, Les Belles de nuit, Le Cortège des dentelles René Magritte's first solo exhibition in the United States (Julien Levy Gallery, New York)
Births 10 January – Lucienne Stassaert, poet 19 April – Wilfried Martens, prime minister (died 2013) 24 May – Patrick Nothomb, diplomat (died 2020) 6 July – Grand Jojo, singer-songwriter (died 2021) 7 November – Roger Vangheluwe, Roman Catholic bishop and sexual abuser (died 2026) 30 November – Eric Walter Elst, astronomer (died 2022) 25 December – Marnix Vincent, literary translator (died 2016)
Deaths
3 January – Jules Destrée (born 1863), socialist 25 February – Anna Boch (born 1848), painter 5 March – Georges Hobé (born 1854), architect 8 May – Paul Spaak (born 1871), poet 16 September – Pol Demade (born 1863), writer 4 October – Privat Livemont (born 1861), artist 11 October – Joseph Jacquemotte (born 1883), anarcho-syndicalist
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