1934 in Belgium

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See also:	Other events of 1934 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1934 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Monarch – Albert I (until 17 February); Leopold III (from 23 February)

Prime Minister – Charles de Broqueville (to 20 November); Georges Theunis (from 20 November)

Events

• 6 January – First electrified railway between Brussels and Antwerp taken into use.[1]: 833 
• 22 February – Funeral of King Albert I.[1]: 834 
• 23 February – Leopold III sworn in as King, following the death of his father Albert I, on 17 February.[1]: 834 
• 28 March – Socialist savings bank Bank van de Arbeid goes bankrupt.[1]: 833 
• 16 May – Firedamp explosion in Fief-de-Lambrechies and Pâturages kills 57.[1]: 835 
• 31 May – Law on languages in law cases passes Parliament.[1]: 833 
• 13 November – De Broqueville government resigns.[1]: 834 
• 20 November – New government led by Georges Theunis takes office.[1]: 835 
• 26 November – Meteorite impact near Roisin.[1]: 833 

Publications

• Henry De Vocht, Monumenta Humanistica Lovaniensia: Texts and Studies about Louvain Humanists in the First Half of the XVIth Century

Art and architecture

• 29 March – Surrealist group Rupture founded in La Louvière.[1]: 833 

Exhibitions

• May–June – Le Minotaure (Brussels).[1]: 833 

Films

• Belgium's first Dutch-language sound film, De Witte, screened in Antwerp (13 September).[1]: 835 

Births

• 21 January – François van Hoobrouck d'Aspre, politician (died 2020)
• 6 June – Birth of Prince Albert

Deaths

• 9 February – Henri Van Dyck (born 1849), painter
• 17 February – King Albert (born 1875)

References

1. Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987).