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.
• February – Pierre Charles becomes European heavyweight champion.
• 17 April – Rail disaster when Paris to Brussels Express runs into a goods train near Halle in thick mist.
• 26 May – Legislative elections; Lucie Dujardin, on the Belgian Labour Party ticket in Liège, the first woman elected to parliament.
• 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).
• 26 August – Maurice Tempelsman, businessman (died 2025 in the United States)
• 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)

References