1925 in Belgium

Decades:	1900s; 1910s; 1920s; 1930s; 1940s;
See also:	Other events of 1925; List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1925 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Monarch – Albert I

Prime Minister – Georges Theunis (to 13 May); Aloys Van de Vyvere (13 May to 17 June); Prosper Poullet (from 17 June)

6 March – Annexation of Eupen and Malmedy to the Kingdom of Belgium.
10 March – Parliament passes a law on the provision of electricity.^[1]
5 April
- Legislative elections: Belgian Labour Party and Catholic Party each win 78 seats
- Henri de Baillet-Latour elected President of the International Olympic Committee
23 April – Monument to the Zeebrugge Raid inaugurated by King Albert I.
7 June – 14th Gordon Bennett Cup held in Brussels.
28 June – Antonio Ascari wins the 1925 Belgian Grand Prix, the first held on the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps.
19 July – Lucien Buysse comes second in the 1925 Tour de France
13 October – Gaston-Antoine Rasneur, bishop of Tournai, consecrates the new abbey church of Chimay Abbey.^[2]
8 November – Provincial elections
December – Flooding in Charleroi

New buildings of the Major Seminary of Ghent (1925)

7 January – Louis Carré, footballer (died 2002)
26 January — Jean-Marie Ghuysen, chemist (died 2004)
31 January – Micheline Lannoy, Olympic figure skater
25 February – Gilbert Temmerman, politician (died 2012)
8 March – Antoine, 13th Prince of Ligne, aristocrat (died 2005)
21 March – Pierre Celis, brewer (died 2011)
7 April – Jos De Beukelaere, cyclist (died 1969)
9 April – Paula Sémer, broadcaster (died 2021)
11 April – Rik Kuypers, film maker (died 2019)
8 May
- Dino Attanasio, comics artist
- André-Paul Duchâteau, writer (died 2020)
16 May – Bobbejaan Schoepen, entertainer (died 2010)
25 July – Yolande Uyttenhove, pianist (died 2000)
4 September – Leo Apostel, philosopher (died 1995)
5 September
- Robert Schoonjans, runner (died 2011)
- Jos Vandeloo, writer (died 2015)
16 September – José Desmarets, politician (died 2019)
25 September – Janine de Greef, Resister (died 2020)
6 October – Jean Mathonet, footballer (died 2004)
16 October – Karel Dillen, politician (died 2007)
25 October – Joseph Michel, politician (died 2016)
3 December – Paula Marckx, pilot (died 2020)
20 December – Bob de Moor, comics artist (died 1992)

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