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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
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

Deaths
  • 24 December – Xavier Mabille (born 1933), historian and political scientist

See also

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


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