1926 in Belgium

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See also:

Other events of 1926
List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1926 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Monarch – Albert I

Prime Minister – Prosper Poullet (to 8 May); Henri Jaspar (from 20 May)

Events

Wedding of Leopold and Astrid in Stockholm, 4 November

Inauguration of the equestrian statue of Leopold II in Brussels

Refoundation of Orval Abbey
7 January – Flooding along the River Meuse, particularly in Liège.[1]
21 January – The Belgian Parliament accepts the Locarno Treaties.
31 January – Belgian troops withdraw from German occupation zone.
8 May – Government led by Prosper Poullet falls.
20 May – Government of national unity formed under Henri Jaspar.
23 July – National Railway Company of Belgium founded.
20 October – Treaty establishing free movement of labour between Belgium and Luxembourg signed at Luxembourg.[2]
4 November – Civil registration of wedding between Prince Leopold of Belgium, Duke of Brabant and Princess Astrid of Sweden in Stockholm
10 November – Blessing of the union of Prince Leopold and Princess Astrid in Brussels minster.
15 November – Inauguration of the equestrian statue of Leopold II in Brussels.

Publications

Albert Giraud, Le Concert dans le musée
Franz Hellens, Le Naïf

Art and architecture

Buildings

Le Corbusier, Maison Guiette, Antwerp

Births

4 February – Albert Frère, businessman (died 2018)
20 February – Bobby Jaspar, jazz saxophonist (died 1963)
27 February – Luc Alfons de Hovre, bishop (died 2009)
21 March – André Delvaux, film director (died 2002)
5 July – Éliane Vogel-Polsky, lawyer and feminist (died 2015)
14 July – Guy Vandenbranden, artist (died 2014)
16 July – Emile Degelin, film director and novelist (died 2017)
27 August – Paula D'Hondt, politician
29 August – Jean Bourguignon, inventor (died 1981)
12 September – Paul Janssen, pharmacologist (died 2003)
29 October – Maurice Blomme, cyclist (died 1980)
30 October – Jacques Swaters, racing driver (died 2010)

Deaths

23 January – Désiré-Joseph Mercier (born 1851), cardinal
2 December – Gérard Cooreman (born 1852), prime minister
14 December – Théo van Rysselberghe (born 1862), painter
16 December – Hippolyte Fierens-Gevaert (born 1870), art historian

References

Jean-Pierre Keimeul, Les inondations de Liège de 1926, Institut d'histoire ouvrière, économique et sociale (IHOES)
Daniel C. Turack, "Freedom of Movement and the Travel Document in Benelux", International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 17:1 (Jan. 1968), pp. 191-192.

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