title: 1926 in Belgium
text: # 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
  