1920 in Belgium
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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 May – King Albert and Queen Elisabeth attend the London wedding of Oswald Mosley and Lady Cynthia Curzon.[1]
- 14 August to 12 September – 1920 Summer Olympics held in Antwerp.[2]
- 7 September – Franco-Belgian Accord for mutual defence signed.[3]
- 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)[4]
- André Baillon, Moi quelque part... (Brussels, Soupente)
- George Wharton Edwards, Belgium Old & New (Penn Publishing Company)[5]
- Charlotte Kellogg, Bobbins of Belgium: A Book of Belgian Lace (New York and London, Funk & Wagnalls)[6]
- Charlotte Kellogg, Mercier, the Fighting Cardinal of Belgium (New York and London, D. Appleton and Company)[7]
- A. R. Hope Moncrieff, Belgium Past and Present: The Cockpit of Europe (London, A. & C. Black)[8]
- G. W. Prothero, Question of the Scheldt (London, H.M. Stationery Office)[9]
- Herman Vander Linden, Belgium: The Making of a Nation (Oxford, The Clarendon Press)[10]
- Brand Whitlock, Belgium: A Personal Narrative (New York, D. Appleton)[11]
Art and architecture
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Births
- 25 January – Jeanne Brabants, dancer (died 2014)
- 18 June – Aster Berkhof, writer
- 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)
- 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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References
- ^ "Royal Visitors Arrive by Air". britishpathe.com. British Pathé. 15 May 1920.
- ^ Olympic Games Handbook (New York, American Sports Publishing co., 1921)
- ^ Emile Vandervelde, Belgian Foreign Policy and the Nationalities Question, Foreign Affairs, July 1933.
- ^ https://archive.org/details/yserbelgiancoast00cler
- ^ https://archive.org/details/belgiumoldnew00edwagoog
- ^ https://archive.org/details/bobbinsofbelgium00kell
- ^ https://archive.org/details/mercierfightingc00kell
- ^ https://archive.org/details/belgiumpastprese00moncuoft
- ^ https://www.wdl.org/en/item/9195/
- ^ https://archive.org/details/belgiummakingofn00lind
- ^ https://archive.org/details/belgiumpersonaln02whituoft
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