Events in the year 1929 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Albert I Albert I may refer to: People Born before 1300 * Albert I, Count of Vermandois (917–987) *Albert I, Count of Namur () *Albert I of Moha *Albert I of Brandenburg (), first margrave of Brandenburg *Albert I, Margrave of Meissen (1158–1195) *Alber ...

: Prime Minister – Henri Jaspar

Events

* 5 January – Schelde dike breached; flooding around Dendermonde.Alain de Gueldre et al., ''Kroniek van België'' (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987). * 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 A general election is a political voting election where generally all or most members of a given political body are chosen. These are usually held for a nation, state, or territory's primary legislative body, and are different from by-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 (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 ''The Treachery of Images'' (french: La Trahison des Images, link=no) is a 1929 painting by Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte. It is also known as ''This Is Not a Pipe'' and ''The Wind and the Song''. Magritte painted it when he was 30 ...

Births

* 8 April –

Jacques Brel Jacques Romain Georges Brel (, ; 8 April 1929 – 9 October 1978) was a Belgian singer and actor who composed and performed literate, thoughtful, and theatrical songs that generated a large, devoted following—initially in Belgium and France, l ...

, entertainer (died 1978) * 2 June –

Frédéric Devreese Frédéric Devreese (2 June 1929 – 28 September 2020) was a Belgian composer of mostly orchestral, chamber and piano works that have been performed throughout the world; he was also active as a conductor. Devreese is known for his film scores ...

, composer (died 2020) * 8 July –

Édouard Close Édouard Nicolas Henri Charles Close (8 July 1929 – 2 March 2017) was a Belgian politician and member of the former Socialist Party (PSB). He served as the mayor of Liège, one of Belgium's largest cities, for thirteen years from 1976 to 1990. ...

, 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)

References

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