1929 in Belgium
# 1929 in Belgium

Events in the year 1929 in Belgium.

## Incumbents

    Monarch – Albert I
    Prime Minister – Henri Jaspar

## Events

* 5 January – Schelde dike breached; flooding around $Dendermonde.^{:825}$
* February – Pierre Charles becomes European heavyweight $champion.^{:825}$
* 17 April – Rail disaster when Paris to Brussels Express runs into a goods train near Halle in thick $mist.^{:825}$
* 26 May – Legislative elections; Lucie Dujardin, on the Belgian Labour Party ticket in Liège, the first woman elected to $parliament.^{:826}$
* 9 June – Provincial elections
* 31 August – Contract signed to return Belgian concession of Tianjin to direct Chinese rule (coming into effect March 1931).

## Publications

* Hergé's The Adventures of Tintin first published in Le Petit Vingtième (10 January)
* Emile Vandervelde, Le pays d'Israel: un marxiste en Palestine (Paris, Rieder)

## Art and architecture

### Buildings

* Victor Horta, Palace of Fine Arts, Brussels (begun 1923)

### Paintings

* René Magritte, La Trahison des images

## Births

* 8 April – Jacques Brel, entertainer (died 1978)
* 2 June – Frédéric Devreese, composer (died 2020)
* 8 July – Édouard Close, politician (died 2017).
* 10 September – Lambert Kelchtermans, politician (died 2021)
* 14 September – Jan Vansina, historian and anthropologist (died 2017).
* 25 November – Marcel De Corte, footballer (died 2017).

## Deaths

* 24 August – Karel van de Woestijne, writer (born 1878)
* 13 December – Philippe Wolfers, jeweller (born 1858)
* 26 December – Albert Giraud, poet (born 1860)
