1929 in Belgium

← 1928 1927 1926 1929 in Belgium → 1930 1931 1932
Decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
See also:	Other events of 1929 List of years 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

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

Victor Horta, Palace of Fine Arts, Brussels

Buildings

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

Paintings

• René Magritte, La Trahison des images

Births

• 2 June – Frédéric Devreese, composer (died 2020)

Deaths

• 24 August – Karel van de Woestijne (born 1878), writer