1929 in Belgium explained

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]
• 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 (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

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)

Notes and References

1. Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987).
2. Book: 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. News: Michel Gretry. Edouard Close, ancien bourgmestre de Liège, est décédé . RTBF. 2 March 2017. 15 June 2017.
4. Web site: Jan Vansina (1929–2017). University of Wisconsin–Madison. 15 June 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170514070517/http://history.wisc.edu/news_janvansina.htm. 2017-05-14. dead.
5. Web site: Ex-Anderlecht-aanvaller Marcel De Corte (87) overleden. Sporza. nl. 27 February 2017. 15 June 2017.