1923 in Belgium
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Events in the year 1923 in Belgium.
Incumbents
[edit]Events
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- 23 May – Sabena is founded at Brussels Airport
- 23 September – 12th Gordon Bennett Cup held in Brussels
Publications
[edit]- Periodicals
- Annales de la Société d'archéologie de Bruxelles, vol. 31.[1]
- Annales de la Société d'émulation de Bruges: revue trimestrielle pour l'étude de l'histoire et des antiquités de la Flandre, vol. 66.[2]
- Books
- Jean Haust, Étymologies wallonnes et françaises (Liège and Paris, H. Vaillant-Carmanne and Édouard Champion)[3]
- Maurits Sabbe, Christopher Plantin, translated by Alice Van Riel-Göransson (Antwerp, J.-E. Buschmann)[4]
- Camille Tihon, La Principauté et le Diocèse de Liège sous Robert de Bergues, 1557-1564 (Université de Liège)
Art and architecture
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- 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)
- Paintings
- Gustave De Smet, De mosseleters (Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp)
Births
[edit]- 2 April – Georges Octors, conductor (died 2020)
Deaths
[edit]- 12 August – Victor Harou, explorer (born 1851)
- 1 December – Virginie Loveling, Flemish poet and novelist (born 1836)[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Annales de la Société d'archéologie de Bruxelles. Mémoires, rapports et documents". 1923.
- ^ "Annales de la Société d'émulation de Bruges : Revue trimestrielle pour l'étude de l'histoire et des antiquités de la Flandre". 1923.
- ^ "Étymologies wallonnes et françaises". 1923.
- ^ "Christopher Plantin". 1923.
- ^ Van Gemert, Lia (2011). Women's Writing from the Low Countries 1200-1875: A Bilingual Anthology. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. p. 559. ISBN 978-9-08964-129-8.
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