1936 in Belgium

Incumbents

• Monarch: Leopold III
• Prime Minister: Paul van Zeeland

Events

• January – Remains of Father Damien shipped to Belgium for reburial
• 24 May – Legislative elections
• 7 June – Provincial elections
• September – Sixth Catholic Congress in Mechelen
• DeVlag founded to facilitate cultural exchange with Nazi Germany

Publications

• Emmanuel d'Hooghvorst, J’accuse Léon Degrelle
• Maurice Grevisse, Le Bon Usage
• Hergé, Le Lotus bleu published as an album
• Charles Plisnier, Mariages
• Georges Simenon, 45° à l'ombre, Les Demoiselles de Concarneau, L'Évadé, Long Cours
• Felix Timmermans, ''Het Vlaamsche volksleven volgens Pieter Breughel''

Art

• Paul Delvaux, Le Miroir, Femme dans une grotte, La Fenêtre, La Rose, Les Belles de nuit, Le Cortège des dentelles
• René Magritte's first solo exhibition in the United States

Births

• 10 January – Lucienne Stassaert, poet
• 19 April – Wilfried Martens, prime minister
• 24 May – Patrick Nothomb, diplomat
• 6 July – Grand Jojo, singer-songwriter
• 7 November – Roger Vangheluwe, sexual abuser
• 25 December – Marnix Vincent, literary translator

Deaths

• 3 January – Jules Destrée, socialist
• 25 February – Anna Boch, painter
• 5 March – Georges Hobé, architect
• 8 May – Paul Spaak, poet
• 16 September – Pol Demade, writer
• 4 October – Privat Livemont, artist
• 11 October – Joseph Jacquemotte, anarcho-syndicalist