1925 in Belgium

← 1924 1923 1922 1925 in Belgium → 1926 1927 1928
Decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
See also:	Other events of 1925 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1925 in Belgium .

Incumbents

Monarch – Albert I

Prime Minister – Georges Theunis (to 13 May); Aloys Van de Vyvere (13 May to 17 June); Prosper Poullet (from 17 June)

Events

Antonio Ascari wins the first Belgian Grand Prix to be held at Spa-Francorchamps, 28 June 1925

• 6 March – Annexation of Eupen and Malmedy to the Kingdom of Belgium.
• 10 March – Parliament passes a law on the provision of electricity. ^[1]
• 5 April
  • Legislative elections: Belgian Labour Party and Catholic Party each win 78 seats
  • Henri de Baillet-Latour elected President of the International Olympic Committee
• 23 April – Monument to the Zeebrugge Raid inaugurated by King Albert I.
• 7 June – 14th Gordon Bennett Cup held in Brussels.
• 28 June – Antonio Ascari wins the 1925 Belgian Grand Prix, the first held on the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps.
• 19 July – Lucien Buysse comes second in the 1925 Tour de France
• 13 October – Gaston-Antoine Rasneur, bishop of Tournai, consecrates the new abbey church of Chimay Abbey. ^[2]
• 8 November – Provincial elections
• December – Flooding in Charleroi

Publications

• Jean Dominique, Sable sans fleurs
• André Fontaine, L'Art belge
• Frans Masereel, La Ville: cent bois gravés
• Joris Minne, Alphabet
• Marcel Thiry, Plongeantes proues

Art and architecture

New buildings of the Major Seminary of Ghent (1925)

Buildings

• Major Seminary of Ghent relocates to new buildings (now part of Vlerick Business School)

Births

• 7 January – Louis Carré, footballer (died 2002)
• 26 January — Jean-Marie Ghuysen, chemist (died 2004)
• 31 January – Micheline Lannoy, Olympic figure skater (died 2023)
• 25 February – Gilbert Temmerman, politician (died 2012)
• 8 March – Antoine, 13th Prince of Ligne, aristocrat (died 2005)
• 21 March – Pierre Celis, brewer (died 2011)
• 7 April – Jos De Beukelaere, cyclist (died 1969)
• 9 April – Paula Sémer, broadcaster (died 2021)
• 11 April – Rik Kuypers, film maker (died 2019)
• 8 May
  •  Dino Attanasio, comics artist (born in Italy; died 2026)
  • André-Paul Duchâteau, writer (died 2020)
• 16 May – Bobbejaan Schoepen, entertainer (died 2010)
• 25 July – Yolande Uyttenhove, pianist (died 2000)
• 4 September – Leo Apostel, philosopher (died 1995)
• 5 September
  • Robert Schoonjans, runner (died 2011)
  • Jos Vandeloo, writer (died 2015)
• 16 September – José Desmarets, politician (died 2019)
• 25 September – Janine de Greef, Resister (died 2020)
• 6 October – Jean Mathonet, footballer (died 2004)
• 16 October – Karel Dillen, politician (died 2007)
• 25 October – Joseph Michel, politician (died 2016)
• 3 December – Paula Marckx, pilot (died 2020)
• 20 December – Bob de Moor, comics artist (died 1992)

Deaths

• 17 January – Hendrik Geeraert (born 1863), sluice-keeper
• 23 February – Joris Helleputte (born 1852), architect and politician
• 1 March – Philogène Wytsman (born 1866), biologist
• 8 March – Juliette Wytsman (born 1866), painter
• 25 March – Thomas Vinçotte (born 1850), sculptor
• 9 July – Flavie Van den Hende (born 1865), cellist
• 16 August – Jean Massart (born 1865), botanist
• 9 September – Eugène Goblet d'Alviella (born 1846), politician

References

1. Steven De Jonge, "De elektriciteitssektor in België", BTNG-RBHC, 16:3-4 (1985), pp. 357-39.
2. "L'Abbaye Notre-Dame de la Paix". Ville de Chimay. Chimay.