1928 in Belgium
Events in the year 1928 in Belgium.
Events
- 19 January – Wireless telegraph between Brussels and New York comes into service.
- 1 March – First Belgian newspaper published in Elisabethville, Belgian Congo.
- 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
- Rigo Arnould's L'Yser premières in Brussels on 24 September
- René Magritte “Les Amants”
Births
- 13 May – Eugène Van Roosbroeck, racing cyclist
- 11 June – Queen Fabiola of Belgium, in Spain
- 16 June – Annie Cordy, performer
- 27 June – Antoinette Spaak, politician
- 10 July – Herman Van der Wee, economic historian
- 26 September – Bob Van der Veken, actor
- 9 December – André Milhoux, racing driver
- 19 December – Annette Wademant, screenwriter
Deaths
- 17 January – Karl Hanquet, historian, 57
- 18 March – Paul van Ostaijen, poet, 32
- 4 July – Alfred Loewenstein, financier, 51