1920 in Belgium

File:Henri Carton de Wiart.jpg, Prime Minister of Belgium 1920–1921]]

:Monarch – Albert I

:Prime Minister – Léon Delacroix (to 20 November); Henry Carton de Wiart (from 20 November)

File:1920 olympics poster.jpg

• 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.{{Cite web|title=Royal Visitors Arrive by Air |url=https://www.britishpathe.com/video/royal-visitors-arrive-by-air |website=britishpathe.com |publisher=British Pathé |date=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.{{Cite news|url=https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2021/01/16/100-jaar-geleden-de-eerste-en-laatste-bestorming-van-het-belgis/|title=100 jaar geleden: de eerste en laatste bestorming van het Belgische parlement|publisher=VRTNWS|date=27 January 2021}}
• 14 August to 12 September – 1920 Summer Olympics held in Antwerp.[https://archive.org/details/olympicgameshand00newy Olympic Games Handbook] (New York, American Sports Publishing co., 1921)
• 7 September – Franco-Belgian Accord for mutual defence signed.Emile Vandervelde, [http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/69365/emile-vandervelde/belgian-foreign-policy-and-the-nationalities-question 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

• The Yser and the Belgian Coast (Clermont-Ferrand, Michelin){{Cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/yserbelgiancoast00cler|title=The Yser and the Belgian coast ..|date=Dec 16, 1920|publisher=Clermont-Ferrand : Michelin et cie|via=Internet Archive}}
• André Baillon, Moi quelque part... (Brussels, Soupente)
• George Wharton Edwards, Belgium Old & New (Penn Publishing Company){{Cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/belgiumoldnew00edwagoog|title=Belgium Old & New|date=Dec 16, 1920|publisher=The Penn publishing company|via=Internet Archive}}
• Charlotte Kellogg, Bobbins of Belgium: A Book of Belgian Lace (New York and London, Funk & Wagnalls){{Cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/bobbinsofbelgium00kell|title=Bobbins of Belgium; a book of Belgian lace, lace-workers, lace-schools and lace-villages|first=Charlotte Hoffman|last=Kellogg|date=Dec 16, 1920|publisher=New York, London, Funk & Wagnalls|via=Internet Archive}}
• Charlotte Kellogg, Mercier, the Fighting Cardinal of Belgium (New York and London, D. Appleton and Company){{Cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/mercierfightingc00kell|title=Mercier, the fighting cardinal of Belgium|first=Charlotte|last=Kellogg|date=Dec 16, 1920|publisher=New York, London : D. Appleton and Company|via=Internet Archive}}
• A. R. Hope Moncrieff, Belgium Past and Present: The Cockpit of Europe (London, A. & C. Black){{Cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/belgiumpastprese00moncuoft|title=Belgium past and present : the cockpit of Europe|first=A. R. Hope (Ascott Robert Hope)|last=Moncrieff|date=Dec 16, 1920|publisher=London : A. & C. Black|via=Internet Archive}}
• G. W. Prothero, Question of the Scheldt (London, H.M. Stationery Office){{Cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/a22000889/|title=Question of the Scheldt.|website=Library of Congress}}
• Herman Vander Linden, Belgium: The Making of a Nation (Oxford, The Clarendon Press){{Cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/belgiummakingofn00lind|title=Belgium, the making of a nation|first1=H. vander (Herman vander)|last1=Linden|first2=Sybil|last2=Jane|date=Dec 16, 1920|publisher=Oxford : The Clarendon Press|via=Internet Archive}}
• Brand Whitlock, Belgium: A Personal Narrative (New York, D. Appleton){{Cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/belgiumpersonaln02whituoft|title=Belgium; a personal narrative|first=Brand|last=Whitlock|date=Dec 16, 1920|publisher=New York D. Appleton|via=Internet Archive}}

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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)

• 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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