title: 1929 in Belgium
text: # 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 $Dendermonde.^{:825}$
  * February – Pierre Charles becomes European heavyweight $champion.^{:825}$
  * 17 April – Rail disaster when Paris to Brussels Express runs into a goods train near Halle in thick $mist.^{:825}$
  * 26 May – Legislative elections; Lucie Dujardin, on the Belgian Labour Party ticket in Liège, the first woman elected to $parliament.^{:826}$
  * 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)
  