1929 in Belgium

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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. ^{[1] : 825}
• February – Pierre Charles becomes European heavyweight champion. ^{[1] : 825}
• 17 April – Rail disaster when Paris to Brussels Express runs into a goods train near Halle in thick mist. ^{[1] : 825}
• 26 May – Legislative elections; Lucie Dujardin, on the Belgian Labour Party ticket in Liège, the first woman elected to parliament. ^{[1] : 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) ^[2]

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

• 8 April – Jacques Brel, entertainer (died 1978)
• 2 June – Frédéric Devreese, composer (died 2020)
• 8 July – Édouard Close, politician (died 2017). ^[3]
• 26 August – Maurice Tempelsman, businessman (died 2025 in the United States)
• 14 September – Jan Vansina, historian and anthropologist (died 2017). ^[4]
• 25 November – Marcel De Corte, footballer (died 2017). ^[5]

Deaths

• 24 August – Karel van de Woestijne, writer (born 1878)
• 13 December – Philippe Wolfers, jeweller (born 1858)
• 26 December – Albert Giraud, poet (born 1860)

References

1. Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987).
2. Le pays d'Israel : Un marxiste en Palestine / Par Emile Vandervelde. Suivi de les Oevres d'assistance en Palestine juive par Jeanne-Emile Vandervelde. 1929.
3. Michel Gretry (2 March 2017). "Edouard Close, ancien bourgmestre de Liège, est décédé". RTBF . Retrieved 15 June 2017.
4. "Jan Vansina (1929–2017)". University of Wisconsin–Madison. Archived from the original on 2017-05-14. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
5. "Ex-Anderlecht-aanvaller Marcel De Corte (87) overleden" (in Dutch). Sporza. 27 February 2017. Retrieved 15 June 2017.^{[ permanent dead link ]}