1920 in Belgium

Events

• 11 February – Colonial University of Belgium founded.
• 9 April – The Times publishes a special "Belgian number" 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, demanding the government hear their demands for compensation.
• 14 August to 12 September – 1920 Summer Olympics held in Antwerp.
• 7 September – Franco-Belgian Accord for mutual defence signed.
• 23 October – Ernest Demuyter and Mathieu Labrousse win the 9th Gordon Bennett Cup in Birmingham, Alabama

Publications

• André Baillon, Moi quelque part...
• George Wharton Edwards, Belgium Old & New
• Charlotte Kellogg, Bobbins of Belgium: A Book of Belgian Lace
• Charlotte Kellogg, Mercier, the Fighting Cardinal of Belgium
• A. R. Hope Moncrieff, Belgium Past and Present: The Cockpit of Europe
• G. W. Prothero, Question of the Scheldt
• Herman Vander Linden, Belgium: The Making of a Nation
• Brand Whitlock, ''Belgium: A Personal Narrative''

Births

• 25 January – Jeanne Brabants, dancer
• 1 May – Jacques Stiennon, historian
• 18 June – Aster Berkhof, writer
• 3 July – Eddy Paape, cartoonist
• 6 August – Jean de Heinzelin de Braucourt, geologist
• 18 August – Marcella Pattyn, Beguine
• 5 September – Jean Tordeur, writer
• 15 September — Luc Gillon, priest-scientist
• 21 October – Arnold Boghaert, bishop
• 12 November – Yvonne Vandekerckhove, swimmer
• 11 December – Alfons Van Uytven, trade unionist
• 20 December – Helene Moszkiewiez, resister

Deaths

• 27 March – Henriette Mayer van den Bergh, art collector
• 30 April – Charles van Rysselberghe, architect
• 25 June – Amadeus de Bie, Cistercian abbot
• 13 December – Oswald Orth, literary scholar