1936 in Belgium

Events in the year 1936 in Belgium.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Leopold III
 * 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

 * 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
 * 4 October – Privat Livemont (born 1861), artist
 * 11 October – Joseph Jacquemotte (born 1883), anarcho-syndicalist