1920 in Belgium
Events in the year 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
The Yser and the Belgian Coast- 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