1934 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.
 * 22 February – Funeral of King Albert I.
 * 23 February – Leopold III sworn in as King, following the death of his father Albert I, on 17 February.
 * 28 March – Socialist savings bank Bank van de Arbeid goes bankrupt.
 * 16 May – Firedamp explosion in Fief-de-Lambrechies and Pâturages kills 57.
 * 31 May – Law on languages in law cases passes Parliament.
 * 13 November – De Broqueville government resigns.
 * 20 November – New government led by Georges Theunis takes office.
 * 26 November – Meteorite impact near Roisin.

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.


 * Exhibitions
 * May–June – Le Minotaure (Brussels).


 * Films
 * Belgium's first Dutch-language sound film, De Witte, screened in Antwerp (13 September).

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)