1926 in Belgium

Events in the year 1926 in Belgium.

← 1925 1924 1923 1926 in Belgium → 1927 1928 1929
Decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
See also:	Other events of 1926 List of years 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.
• 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