Events in the year 1937 in Belgium.

Incumbents

: Monarch – Leopold III (from 17 February) : Prime Minister – Paul van Zeeland (to 24 November);

Paul-Émile Janson Paul-Émile (Paul Emil) Janson (30 May 1872 – 3 March 1944) was a francophone Belgian liberal politician and the prime minister from 1937 to 1938. During the German occupation, he was arrested as a political prisoner and died in a German concen ...

(from 24 November)

Events

* 22 to 25 May – King Baudouin makes a state visit to Britain. * 20 June – 25th Gordon Bennett Cup held in Brussels.

Publications

* Hergé, ''

L'Oreille cassée ''The Broken Ear'' (french: link=no, L'Oreille cassée, originally published in English as ''Tintin and the Broken Ear'') is the sixth volume of ''The Adventures of Tintin'', the comics series by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Commissioned by ...

'' (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 The Economic Research Service (ERS) is a component of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and a principal agency of the Federal Statistical System of the United States. It provides information and research on agriculture and economi ...

)

Art and architecture

209161 Landbouwinstituut Kasteelpark Arenberg

;Buildings *

Raymond Lemaire Canon Raymond Lemaire (1878–1954) was a professor at the Catholic University of Leuven, both student and successor of Joris Helleputte. Life Lemaire was ordained to the priesthood in 1901 and graduated with a doctorate in Archaeology and Art Hi ...

, 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 Joseph Mansion (1877–1937) was a Belgian philologist and a professor at the University of Liège. Life Mansion was born in Ghent on 9 January 1877 and studied at the Collège Sainte-Barbe in the city and at the University of Ghent.A. Van Loey, ...

(born 1877), philologist

References

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