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

• Victor Horta, Palace of Fine Arts, Brussels

• René Magritte, ''La Trahison des images''

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