1923 in Belgium

Events in the year 1923 in Belgium.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Albert I
 * Prime Minister – Georges Theunis

Events

 * 23 May – Sabena is founded at Brussels Airport
 * 23 September – 12th Gordon Bennett Cup held in Brussels

Publications

 * Periodicals
 * Annales de la Société d'archéologie de Bruxelles, vol. 31.
 * Annales de la Société d'émulation de Bruges: revue trimestrielle pour l'étude de l'histoire et des antiquités de la Flandre, vol. 66.


 * Books
 * Jean Haust, Étymologies wallonnes et françaises (Liège and Paris, H. Vaillant-Carmanne and Édouard Champion)
 * Maurits Sabbe, Christopher Plantin, translated by Alice Van Riel-Göransson (Antwerp, J.-E. Buschmann)
 * Camille Tihon, La Principauté et le Diocèse de Liège sous Robert de Bergues, 1557-1564 (Université de Liège)

Art and architecture

 * Buildings
 * Eagle, Star & British Dominions Insurance Company office building ("British Dominions House") in Antwerp
 * Work starts on Victor Horta's Palace of Fine Arts in Brussels (completed 1929)


 * Paintings
 * Gustave De Smet, De mosseleters (Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp)

Births

 * 2 April – Georges Octors, conductor (died 2020)

Deaths

 * 12 August – Victor Harou, explorer (born 1851)
 * 1 December – Virginie Loveling, Flemish poet and novelist (born 1836)