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| 1929 |
| | | Ernest Hemingway publishes A Farewell to Arms, closely reflecting his own wartime experiences | |
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| 1929 |
| | | Alfred Hitchcock directs Blackmail, the first British talkie, with a climax on the roof of the British Museum | |
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| 1929 |
| | | US astronomer Edwin Hubble uses the red shift of light from galaxies to demonstrate that they are receding from each other and the universe is expanding | |
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| 1929 |
| | | Margaret Bondfield becomes the first woman to sit in the British cabinet, as minister of labour | |
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| 1929 |
| | | Italian writer Alberto Moravia wins success with his first novel, The Time of Indifference | |
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| 1929 |
| | | 20-year-old French composer Olivier Messiaen publishes eight Preludes for piano | |
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| 1929 |
| | | Jazz musician Fats Waller begins recording with his Buddies, one of the first racially integrated groups in the US music industry | |
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| 1929 |
| | | Erich Maria Remarque publishes All Quiet on the Western Front, a novel based on his wartime experiences in the German army | |
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| 1929 |
| | | Arabs in the Palestinian town of Hebron turn on their Jewish neighbours and murder sixty-seven | |
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| 1929 |
| | | George Formby makes the first records featuring what becomes his trademark, the ukulele | |
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