Events in the year 1929 in Belgium.
Incumbents Monarch – Albert I Prime Minister – Henri Jaspar
Events 5 January – Schelde dike breached; flooding around Dendermonde.Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987). 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)
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