2001 in Belgium
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Events
- March 27 - A train collision in Pécrot, Walloon Brabant causes 8 fatalities.
- April 28 - Popular amusement park Walibi Waver reopens as Six Flags Belgium.
- June 3 - Aloys Jousten consecrated as bishop of Liège
- July 16 - Belgian Jacques Rogge elected President of the International Olympic Committee.
- September 11 - One Belgian dies in the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City: Patrice Braut, killed on the 94th floor.[2]
- November 6 - National airline company Sabena is declared bankrupt by the commercial court.
Publications
- Philippe Bragard and Vincent Bruch, Namur: une citadelle européenne (Namur, Les Amis de la Citadelle de Namur)
- Raymond van Uytven, Production and Consumption in the Low Countries, 13th-16th Centuries (Aldershot, Ashgate Publishing)
Art and architecture
- 21 January to 22 April – Exhibition Pride and Joy: Children's Portraits in The Netherlands 1500-1700 held at Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp.
Births
- 27 February – Largie Ramazani, Belgian footballer
- 10 March – Charles De Ketelaere, Belgian footballer
- 25 October – Princess Elisabeth, eldest child of Philippe of Belgium (then Duke of Brabant)
