1929 in Belgium
Events in the year 1929 in Belgium.
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.
Publications
- Hergé's The Adventures of Tintin first published in Le Petit Vingtième
- Emile Vandervelde, ''Le pays d'Israel: un marxiste en Palestine''
Art and architecture
;Buildings- Victor Horta, Palace of Fine Arts, Brussels
Births
- 8 April – Jacques Brel, entertainer
- 2 June – Frédéric Devreese, composer
- 8 July – Édouard Close, politician.
- 26 August – Maurice Tempelsman, businessman
- 14 September – Jan Vansina, historian and anthropologist.
- 25 November – Marcel De Corte, footballer.
Deaths
- 24 August – Karel van de Woestijne, writer
- 13 December – Philippe Wolfers, jeweller
- 26 December – Albert Giraud, poet