1923 in Belgium

Events in the year 1923 in Belgium.

← 1922 1921 1920 1923 in Belgium → 1924 1925 1926
Decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
See also:	Other events of 1923 List of years in Belgium

Incumbents

Monarch – Albert I

Prime Minister – Georges Theunis

Events

Two balloons collide during the Gordon Bennett Cup in Brussels

• 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.^[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

British Dominions House, Antwerp

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

• 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)^[5]