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).
 * 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)