1926 in Belgium
# 1926 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

* Refoundation of Orval Abbey
* 7 January – Flooding along the river Meuse, particularly in Liège.
* 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.
* 30 May – 15th Gordon Bennett Cup held in Antwerp.
* 23 July – National Railway Company of Belgium founded.
* 10 October – Municipal elections
* 20 October – Treaty establishing free movement of labour between Belgium and Luxembourg signed at Luxembourg.
* 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

### Film

* De Boma à Tshela, a documentary silent film

## 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)
* 14 April – Henri Kichka, Holocaust survivor (died 2020)
* 26 June – Paul Sobol, Holocaust survivor (died 2020)
* 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
* 27 December – François Poels (born 1881), trade unionist
