2012 in Belgium

Events in the year 2012 in Belgium.

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See also:	Other events of 2012 List of years in Belgium

Incumbents

• Monarch: Albert II
• Prime Minister: Elio Di Rupo

Events

February

• 3 to 4 February – The traffic record is broken in Belgium due to excessive snowfall, 1,275 kilometres of traffic.

March

• 13 March – Sierre coach crash: a bus with Belgian and Dutch schoolchildren crashes in a tunnel near Sierre, Switzerland, killing 28 and injuring 24.
• 16 March – National day of mourning for the victims of the Sierre coach crash.

June

• 7 June – King Albert II of Belgium opens the 25N railway line.

September

• 17 September – Flemish commercial TV channel VT4 relaunched as VIER.

October

• 14 October – Provincial and municipal elections take place.
• 24 October – Announcement that Ford Genk would close at the end of 2013 or the beginning of 2014, leaving 4,300 unemployed.
• 27 October – Five Belgians die in a bus accident in Kerak, Jordan.

December

• 9 December – The Benelux train serving Amsterdam and Brussels is replaced by the Fyra high speed train.

Sports

• 24 March – The team K.S.C. Lokeren Oost-Vlaanderen wins the 2011–12 Belgian Cup.
• 6 May – Anderlecht win the Belgian Pro League after a home draw against Club Brugge.
• 2 September – Jenson Button wins the 2012 Belgian Grand Prix at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps.
• 7 October – Joseph Mutai wins the Brussels Marathon in 2:16.41.
• 25–27 August – Ellen van Dijk wins 2012 Lotto-Decca Tour

Deaths

• 5 May – Jacques Stiennon (born 1920), historian
• 24 December – Xavier Mabille (born 1933), historian and political scientist

See also

• 2012 in Belgian television