← 1935 1934 1933 1936 in Belgium → 1937 1938 1939
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	Other events of 1936 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1936 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Leopold III on a 1936 postage stamp

• Monarch: Leopold III^[1]
• Prime Minister: Paul van Zeeland

Events

• January – Remains of Father Damien shipped to Belgium for reburial
• 24 May – Legislative elections
• 7 June – Provincial elections
• DeVlag (Deutsch-Vlämische Arbeitsgemeinschaft) founded to facilitate cultural exchange with Nazi Germany

Publications

• Emmanuel d'Hooghvorst, J’accuse Léon Degrelle
• Maurice Grevisse, Le Bon Usage
• Hergé, Le Lotus bleu (serialised 1934–35) published as an album
• Charles Plisnier, Mariages
• Georges Simenon, 45° à l'ombre, Les Demoiselles de Concarneau, L'Évadé, Long Cours
• Felix Timmermans, Het Vlaamsche volksleven volgens Pieter Breughel

Art

• Paul Delvaux, Le Miroir, Femme dans une grotte, La Fenêtre, La Rose, Les Belles de nuit, Le Cortège des dentelles
• René Magritte's first solo exhibition in the United States (Julien Levy Gallery, New York)

Births

• 10 January – Lucienne Stassaert, poet
• 19 April – Wilfried Martens, prime minister (died 2013)
• 24 May – Patrick Nothomb, diplomat (died 2020)
• 6 July – Grand Jojo, singer-songwriter (died 2021)
• 7 November – Roger Vangheluwe, sexual abuser
• 25 December – Marnix Vincent, literary translator (died 2016)

Deaths

The painter Anna Boch (died 1936)

• 3 January – Jules Destrée (born 1863), socialist
• 25 February – Anna Boch (born 1848), painter
• 5 March – Georges Hobé (born 1854), architect
• 8 May – Paul Spaak (born 1871), poet
• 16 September – Pol Demade (born 1863), writer
• 11 October – Joseph Jacquemotte (born 1883), anarcho-syndicalist

References

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