Events of the year 1932 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Monarch

  • Albert I

Prime Minister

  • Jules Renkin (to 22 October)
  • Charles de Broqueville (from 22 October)

Events

  • 27 June to 10 September – Ten weeks of strikes in the Borinage to protest against economic conditions.
  • 9 October – Municipal elections
  • 18 October – Jules Renkin offers his resignation as prime minister
  • 27 November – Legislative election returns Catholic Party majority
  • 4 December – Provincial elections

Publications

  • Franz Hellens, Poésie de la veille et du lendemain
  • Hergé, Tintin en Amérique (serialised 1931–1932) published as an album

Art and architecture

Paintings
  • René Magritte, The Universe Unmasked
Cinema
  • La Nuit du Carrefour (France), Jean Renoir's adaptation of Georges Simenon's La Nuit du carrefour (1931)

Business

  • Lotus Bakeries established

Births

  • 17 January – Roger Lallemand, politician (died 2016)
  • 11 March – Piet Van Brabant, journalist (died 2006)
  • 18 March – Arthur Luysterman, bishop of Ghent
  • 23 March – Bettina Le Beau, actress (died 2015)
  • 31 March – Jean-Pierre Grafé, politician (died 2019)
  • 29 June – Evrard Godefroid, cyclist (died 2013)
  • 4 July – Aurèle Vandendriessche, marathon runner
  • 20 August – Claudine Wallet, Olympic fencer
  • 27 August – François Glorieux, musician (died 2023)
  • 4 October – Étienne Davignon, politician
  • 6 November – François Englert, theoretical physicist
  • 23 November – Solange Berry, singer
  • 16 December – Karel Oomen, wrestler
  • 20 December – Carla Walschap, writer and teacher

Deaths

  • 17 February – Fredegand Cogels (born 1850), politician
  • 10 April – Jean-François Heymans (born 1859), pharmacologist
  • 19 April – Edgard Colle (born 1897), chess master
  • 24 June – Guy Reyntiens (born 1880), Olympic equestrian
  • 25 July – Cyriel Buysse (born 1859), playwright
  • 20 August – Émile Mathieu (born 1844), composer
  • 27 August – Ursmer Berlière (born 1861), monastic historian
  • 29 September – Émile van Ermengem (born 1851), bacteriologist
  • 7 October – Eugène Broerman (born 1861), painter
  • 28 October – Joseph Dejardin (born 1873), trade unionist

References


19311932 Belgio RomanPhil Filatelia, numismatica Roma Vaticano

1932 Belgium 5 Francs Lot Belg5Fr For Sale, Buy Now Online Item 287190

Belgium 1942/1962 Umfangreiche Sammlung Catawiki

Belgien / Belgium P.093 5 Francs 1923 (3)

Belgien / Belgium P.132b 20 Francs 1956 (1)