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Other events of 2012
List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 2012 in Belgium.

Incumbents

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.^[3]

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.^[4]
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.^[5]
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

References

^ "Belgian King Philippe sworn in". BBC News. 21 July 2013. Retrieved 18 March 2019.
^ "Belgian king begins talks on forming new government". www.irishtimes.com. Retrieved 18 March 2019.
^ "Belgian day of national mourning for coach crash dead". BBC News. 16 March 2012. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
^ "Ford Genk sluit in 2014". De Standaard (in Dutch). 24 October 2012. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
^ "Jenson Button wins Belgian Grand Prix while Lewis Hamilton crashes out". The Guardian. 2 September 2012. Retrieved 1 July 2017.

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