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1920
Events in the year 1920 in Belgium.
Incumbents
thumb|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
thumb|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.Royal Visitors Arrive by Air https://www.britishpathe.com/video/royal-visitors-arrive-by-air britishpathe.com British Pathé 15 May 1920
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.https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2021/01/16/100-jaar-geleden-de-eerste-en-laatste-bestorming-van-het-belgis/ 100 jaar geleden: de eerste en laatste bestorming van het Belgische parlement VRTNWS 27 January 2021
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)http://archive.org/details/yserbelgiancoast00cler The Yser and the Belgian coast .. Dec 16, 1920 Clermont-Ferrand : Michelin et cie Internet Archive
André Baillon, Moi quelque part... (Brussels, Soupente)
George Wharton Edwards, Belgium Old & New (Penn Publishing Company)http://archive.org/details/belgiumoldnew00edwagoog Belgium Old & New Dec 16, 1920 The Penn publishing company Internet Archive
Charlotte Kellogg, Bobbins of Belgium: A Book of Belgian Lace (New York and London, Funk & Wagnalls)http://archive.org/details/bobbinsofbelgium00kell Bobbins of Belgium; a book of Belgian lace, lace-workers, lace-schools and lace-villages Charlotte Hoffman Kellogg Dec 16, 1920 New York, London, Funk & Wagnalls Internet Archive
Charlotte Kellogg, Mercier, the Fighting Cardinal of Belgium (New York and London, D. Appleton and Company)http://archive.org/details/mercierfightingc00kell Mercier, the fighting cardinal of Belgium Charlotte Kellogg Dec 16, 1920 New York, London : D. Appleton and Company Internet Archive
A. R. Hope Moncrieff, Belgium Past and Present: The Cockpit of Europe (London, A. & C. Black)http://archive.org/details/belgiumpastprese00moncuoft Belgium past and present : the cockpit of Europe A. R. Hope (Ascott Robert Hope) Moncrieff Dec 16, 1920 London : A. & C. Black Internet Archive
G. W. Prothero, Question of the Scheldt (London, H.M. Stationery Office)https://www.loc.gov/item/a22000889/ Question of the Scheldt. Library of Congress
Herman Vander Linden, Belgium: The Making of a Nation (Oxford, The Clarendon Press)http://archive.org/details/belgiummakingofn00lind Belgium, the making of a nation H. vander (Herman vander) Linden Sybil Jane Dec 16, 1920 Oxford : The Clarendon Press Internet Archive
Brand Whitlock, Belgium: A Personal Narrative (New York, D. Appleton)http://archive.org/details/belgiumpersonaln02whituoft Belgium; a personal narrative Brand Whitlock Dec 16, 1920 New York D. Appleton Internet Archive
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
References
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