1937 in Belgium

← 1936 1935 1934 1937 in Belgium → 1938 1939 1940
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See also:	Other events of 1937 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1937 in Belgium .

Incumbents

Monarch – Leopold III

Prime Minister – Paul van Zeeland (to 24 November); Paul-Émile Janson (from 24 November)

Events

• 22 to 25 May – King Leopold III makes a state visit to Britain. ^[1]
• 20 June – 25th Gordon Bennett Cup held in Brussels.

Publications

• Hergé, L'Oreille cassée (serialised December 1935 to February 1937)
• Henri Pirenne, Mahomet et Charlemagne (posthumous)
• H. E. Reed, Hogs in Belgian Agriculture (Washington D.C., United States Department of Agriculture Bureau of Agricultural Economics) ^[2]

Art and architecture

Institute of Agriculture in the park of Arenberg Castle, Heverlee

Buildings

• Raymond Lemaire, Institute of Agriculture, Heverlee

Paintings

• René Magritte, La Reproduction Interdite

Births

• 1 January – Willy Kuijpers, politician (died 2020)
• 3 November – Gaspard Hons, poet (died 2020)

Deaths

• 8 November – Joseph Mansion (born 1877), philologist

References

1. "Belgium's Policy. King's Visit. Vital Talks. Neutrality and Colonies". Sydney Morning Herald . 24 March 1937. p. 17. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
2. "Hogs in Belgian agriculture". 1937.