Events in the year 1927 in Belgium.
Incumbents Monarch – Albert I Prime Minister – Henri JasparJ.E. Helmreich, Belgium and Europe: A Study in Small Power Diplomacy, 1976
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.Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987). 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.
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)
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
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