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
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. 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. 14 August to 12 September – 1920 Summer Olympics held in Antwerp.Olympic Games Handbook (New York, American Sports Publishing co., 1921) 7 September – Franco-Belgian Accord for mutual defence signed.Emile Vandervelde, Belgian Foreign Policy and the Nationalities Question, Foreign Affairs, July 1933. 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) André Baillon, Moi quelque part... (Brussels, Soupente) George Wharton Edwards, Belgium Old & New (Penn Publishing Company) Charlotte Kellogg, Bobbins of Belgium: A Book of Belgian Lace (New York and London, Funk & Wagnalls) Charlotte Kellogg, Mercier, the Fighting Cardinal of Belgium (New York and London, D. Appleton and Company) A. R. Hope Moncrieff, Belgium Past and Present: The Cockpit of Europe (London, A. & C. Black) G. W. Prothero, Question of the Scheldt (London, H.M. Stationery Office) Herman Vander Linden, Belgium: The Making of a Nation (Oxford, The Clarendon Press) Brand Whitlock, Belgium: A Personal Narrative (New York, D. Appleton)
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 (died 2008) 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
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