Events in the year 1923 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Monarch – Albert I

Prime Minister – Georges Theunis

Events

23 May – Sabena is founded at Brussels Airport

23 September – 12th Gordon Bennett Cup held in Brussels

Publications

Periodicals

Annales de la Société d'archéologie de Bruxelles, vol. 31. Annales de la Société d'émulation de Bruges: revue trimestrielle pour l'étude de l'histoire et des antiquités de la Flandre, vol. 66.

1923 in Belgium

Books

Jean Haust, Étymologies wallonnes et françaises (Liège and Paris, H. Vaillant-Carmanne and Édouard Champion) Maurits Sabbe, Christopher Plantin, translated by Alice Van Riel-Göransson (Antwerp, J.-E. Buschmann) Camille Tihon, La Principauté et le Diocèse de Liège sous Robert de Bergues, 1557-1564 (Université de Liège)

1923 in Belgium

Art and architecture

Buildings

Eagle, Star & British Dominions Insurance Company office building ("British Dominions House") in Antwerp Work starts on Victor Horta's Palace of Fine Arts in Brussels (completed 1929)

1923 in Belgium

Paintings

Gustave De Smet, De mosseleters (Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp)

Births

2 April – Georges Octors, conductor (died 2020)

Deaths

12 August – Victor Harou, explorer (born 1851) 1 December – Virginie Loveling, Flemish poet and novelist (born 1836)

References

1920s in Belgium

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Years of the 20th century in Belgium

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