1928 in Belgium

Events in the year 1928 in Belgium.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Albert I
 * Prime Minister – Henri Jaspar

Events

 * 19 January – Wireless telegraph between Brussels and New York comes into service.
 * 1 March – First Belgian newspaper published in Elisabethville, Belgian Congo (now Lubumbashi).
 * 27 April – First board meeting of the newly established National Fund for Scientific Research, chaired by Émile Francqui.
 * 13 May – The 1928 Liège–Bastogne–Liège cycle race is won by Belgian rider Ernest Mottard.
 * June – The Belgian Open golf tournament is played at the Royal Golf Club of Belgium and is won by Albert Tingey Jr.
 * 4 July – Financier Alfred Loewenstein vanishes on a Croydon Airport to Brussels.
 * 29 July – Alfred Loewenstein's corpse washes ashore at Boulogne-sur-Mer
 * 5 to 12 August – Socialist International meets in Brussels.
 * 6 October – New sluices in Nieuwpoort breached by high water.

Art and architecture

 * Buildings
 * Alphonse Pauwels' art deco Cinema Roma opens in Borgerhout


 * Films
 * Rigo Arnould's L'Yser premières in Brussels on 24 September


 * Artworks
 * René Magritte “Les Amants”

Births

 * 13 May – Eugène Van Roosbroeck, racing cyclist (died 2018)
 * 11 June – Queen Fabiola of Belgium, in Spain (died 2014)
 * 16 June – Annie Cordy, performer (died 2020)
 * 27 June – Antoinette Spaak, politician (died 2020)
 * 10 July – Herman Van der Wee, economic historian
 * 26 September – Bob Van der Veken, actor (died 2019)
 * 9 December – André Milhoux, racing driver
 * 19 December – Annette Wademant, screenwriter (died 2017)

Deaths

 * 17 January – Karl Hanquet, historian, 57
 * 18 March – Paul van Ostaijen, poet, 32
 * 4 July – Alfred Loewenstein, financier, 51