Events in the year 1927 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Monarch – Albert I

Prime Minister – Henri Jaspar

Events

22 January – Funeral of Charlotte of Belgium (former Empress of Mexico) in Laken (Brussels). 10 February – League against Imperialism founded at a Congress of Oppressed Peoples in the Egmont Palace, Brussels 1 March – Committee for Public Works established. 15 September – Belgium loses its seat on the permanent council of the League of Nations. October – Fifth International Solvay Conference 21 November – Government falls after Socialists question policy on military service.

1927 in Belgium

Publications

Hendrik de Man, Au-delà du marxisme / Zur Psychologie des Sozialismus

Willem Elsschot, Lijmen

Stijn Streuvels, De teleurgang van de Waterhoek

Art and architecture

Buildings

Le Corbusier, Maison Guiette, Antwerp

Paintings

René Magritte, The Enchanted Pose; The Meaning of Night; The Menaced Assassin

Births

26 January – Victor Mees, footballer (died 2012) 30 January – Jef Nys, comics writer (died 2009) 28 February – Joseph Noiret, artist (died 2012) 9 March — Will Ferdy, singer (died 2022) 1 May – Roland Verhavert, film-maker (died 2014) 7 May – Luc de Heusch, anthropologist (died 2012) 7 July – Henri Dirickx, international footballer (died 2018) 8 July – Willy De Clercq, politician (died 2011) 1 August – André Cools, politician (died 1991) 11 September – Luc Versteylen, Jesuit (died 2021) 11 October – Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium, grand duchess of Luxembourg (died 2005)

1927 in Belgium

Deaths

19 January – Charlotte of Belgium (born 1840) 6 March – Joseph Bascourt (born 1863), architect 4 April Albert Van Coile (born 1900), footballer Auguste Goffinet (born 1857), courtier 17 May – Emilius Seghers (born 1855), bishop of Ghent 28 May – Théophile Lybaert (born 1848), artist 29 May – Georges Eekhoud (born 1854), novelist 11 July – Fernand Feyaerts (born 1880), Olympic swimmer 30 August – Émile Braun (born 1849), engineer 28 October – Oscar Van Den Bossche (born 1893), rower 2 November – Rodolphe Wytsman (died 1860), painter

1927 in Belgium

References

1920s in Belgium

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Years of the 20th century in Belgium

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