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Events in the year 2012 in Belgium.
Contents
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