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]
10 September – Lambert Kelchtermans, politician (died 2021)
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 2 3 4 Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987).
↑ 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.
↑ Michel Gretry (2 March 2017). "Edouard Close, ancien bourgmestre de Liège, est décédé". RTBF. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
↑ "Jan Vansina (1929–2017)". University of Wisconsin–Madison. Archived from the original on 2017-05-14. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
↑ "Ex-Anderlecht-aanvaller Marcel De Corte (87) overleden" (in Dutch). Sporza. 27 February 2017. Retrieved 15 June 2017.

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