Timeline of Brussels (21st century)
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The following is a timeline of the history of Brussels, Belgium, in the 21st century.
2001–2009
[edit]- 2001
- Tour & Taxis begins redevelopment.
- The first Bronze Zinneke is presented to Johan Verminnen.[1]
- 9 January: The first EXKi fast casual restaurant opens at the Namur Gate.[2]
- 16 January: Freddy Thielemans is elected mayor for the second time.
- 26 February: FM Brussel is launched, as the campus radio of RITS.
- 28 April: Police Zone: Brussels - Ixelles is formed as the sixth police zone in the city.[3]
- 13 July: The Lambermont Accord is signed, increasing the representation of Dutch speakers in the Brussels Parliament.
- 25 October: Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant is born at Erasmus Hospital.[4]
- 2002
- The first Brussels Summer Festival is held.
- 7 May: Ahmed Isnasni and Habiba El-Hajji are shot dead by their neighbour, Hendrik Vyt, at their residence in Schaerbeek. Vyt also wounds two of their sons before committing self-immolation.[5][6]
- 1 September: The Jules Bordet Royal Athenaeum becomes part of Institut technique de la Communauté française Chômé-Wyns and changes it name to Leonardo da Vinci Royal Athenaeum.[7]
- 10 December: The Film Museum in integrated into CINEMATEK.
- 2003
- The first Brusseleir van’t joêr is presented to Roger Van de Voorde.[8]
- 13 March: The Iris Festival is created by ordinance.[9]
- 6 June: Daniel Ducarme becomes Minister-President.
- 26 June: Brasserie de la Senne is established; The Institute for the Encouragement of Scientific Research and Innovation of Brussels is established by ordinance.[10]
- 20 September: The Bibliotheca Wittockiana opens to the public.
- 2004
- The North Galaxy Towers are built.
- 18 February: Jacques Simonet becomes Minister-President for the second time.
- 1 March–17 June: The trial of the Dutroux affair takes place.[11][12]
- 14–17 April: The BRussells Tribunal is held as part of the World Tribunal on Iraq.
- 28 June: The Vlaams-Nederlands Huis is established by the Dutch and Flemish governments to promote the culture of the Low Countries.[13][14]
- 2005
- The first Be Film Festival is held.
- 19 July: The BELvue Museum opens in the Hôtel Belle-Vue; Charles Picqué becomes Minister-President for the second time.
- 2006
- The Atomium is renovated.[15]
- 6 March: Tram line 24 begins service.
- 12 April: Joe Van Holsbeeck is fatally stabbed at Brussels-Central railway station in an attempted robbery of his MP3 player.
- 29 August: Benjamin Rawitz-Castel is murdered during a robbery by Junior Kabunda.
- 17 September: The Cyclocity bicycle-sharing system is launched in the Pentagon.[16]
- 23–29 September: Riots break out in the Marolles after Fayçal Chaaban is found dead in his cell.[17][18]
- 8 October: Brussels municipal elections are held.
- 2007
- The Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel (HUB) is established.[19]
- 25 March: Brussels Airlines is formed.
- 25 May: The WIELS contemporary art centre opens in the former Wielemans-Ceuppens brewery.
- 2 July: Tram line 4 begins service.
- 28 September: The Manga murder occurs.
- 2008
- Denis-Adrien Debouvrie, a wealthy local restaurant owner and creator of Jeanneke Pis, is fatally stabbed by the Tunisian restaurant owner Tarek Ladhari.[20]
- The first Brussels Gallery Weekend is held.[21]
- The first Offscreen Film Festival is held.
- 30 June: Tram lines 3 and 51 commence service.
- November: The Meyboom is added to the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity as part of 'Processional giants and dragons in Belgium and France'.[22]
- 2009
- The Stoclet Palace is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.[23]
- 4 April: Reorganisation of the Metro resulted in the creation of lines 1, 5, and 6.
- 16 May: Cyclocity is rebranded to Villo! and expanded to the whole region.
- 2 June: The Magritte Museum opens.
- 18 June: The Marc Sleen Museum is opened in the presence of Marc Sleen, as well as King Albert II.[24]
- 17 November: Olivier Bastin is appointed the first Architect of the Brussels-Capital Region.[25]
- 12 December: The funeral of Queen Fabiola takes place.
2010–2019
[edit]- 2010
- Population of the Brussels-Capital Region: 1,089,538.[26]
- 18 January: André-Joseph Léonard is appointed Archbishop of Mechelen–Brussels.
- 24 November: The Cercle de Lorraine is reestablished at the Hôtel de Mérode-Westerloo.[27]
- 26–29 November: The European Assembly for Climate Justice is held.
- 2011 – 14 March: Tram line 7 begins operations, replacing the routes previously covered by lines lines 23 and 24.
- 2012
- 13 March: Muslim scholar Abdullah al-Dahdouh is murdered in an unprovoked attack in the Islamic Center of Imam Reza.
- 10 June: The first Picnic the Streets occurs.
- 14 October: Brussels municipal elections are held.
- 2–4 November: The first Brussels Beer Challenge is held in the Stock Exchange.[28]
- 2013
- The first Brusseleir vè’t Leive is presented to Claude Lammens.[8]
- 19 February: Be.brusseleir is formed.[29]
- 7 May: Rudi Vervoort becomes Minister-President of the Brussels-Capital Region.
- 21 July: King Philippe takes the constitutional oath at the Palace of the Nation.
- 6 December: The Fin-de-Siècle Museum opens.
- 13 December: Yvan Mayeur is elected mayor.
- 2014
- 1 January: Odisee is established.
- 10 March: Vlaams-Brusselse Media forms.
- 8 May: The Parc Tour et Taxis/Thurn en Taxispark opens to the public.
- 23 May: Choco-Story Brussels is established.
- 24 May: The Jewish Museum of Belgium shooting occurs, killing 4.[30][31]
- 3 June: UP-site is officially opened.
- 18 June: The .brussels generic top-level domain is added to the DNS root zone.
- 1 July: The Governor of the Administrative Arrondissement Brussels-Capital is replaced with the Senior Official of the Administrative Arrondissement Brussels-Capital.[32]
- 2015
- 9 January: The Brussels-Capital Region adopts a new flag.[33][34]
- 25 September: Train World opens in Schaerbeek railway station.[35][36]
- 6 November: Jozef De Kesel is appointed Archbishop of Mechelen–Brussels.[37]
- 21–25 November: The Federal Government imposes a security lockdown, due to information about potential terrorist attacks in the wake of the November 2015 Paris attacks by ISIL on 13 November.[38][39][40][41]
- 11 December: Art & Design Atomium Museum opens.[42]
- 13 December: The Brussels S Train begins operating.[43]
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- 2016
- 8 March: The CIVA architectural centre is established.
- 15–18 March: Police raids are conducted in connection to the attacks in Paris four months earlier.[44][45]
- 22 March: The Brussels bombings occur, killing 34 and injuring 230.[46][47][48][49]
- 4 April: The Schuman-Josaphat tunnel opens.[50]
- 15 April: The Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art (MIMA) opens.[51][52]
- 5 October: The Brussels stabbing attacks occur, 4 injured including the suspect.[53][54]
- 2017
- Parts of the Sonian Forest becomes part of the transnational 'Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe' UNESCO World Heritage Site.[55]
- 6 May: The House of European History (HEH) opens.[56]
- 25 May: NATO's new headquarters open.[57]
- 31 May: Samusocial scandal breaks in the Brussels Parliament.[58]
- 8 June: Yvan Mayor resigns as mayor following the Samusocial scandal.[59]
- 9 June: Philippe Close is appointed mayor by the Government of the Brussels-Capital Region.[60]
- 20 June: The Brussels-Central bombing occurs, killing the perpetrator.[61][62][63]
- 25 August: The Brussels stabbing attack occurs, killing the perpetrator and injuring 2.[64][65][66]
- 7 December: 45,000 people gather in the city for Wake Up Europe! in support of Catalan independence.[67]
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- 2018
- 5 May: KANAL - Centre Pompidou pre-opens in the former Citroën Garage.[68][69]
- 12 May: Manneken Pis receives his 1000th costume, created by fashion designer Jean-Paul Lespagnard.[70][71]
- 5 June: Nigerian sex worker Eunice Osayande is fatally stabbed by a client. Her death leads to protests by migrant sex worker communities.[72]
- 20 June: The reestablished Brussels International Film Festival is held.
- 2 December: The first School Strike for Climate occurs in the city, drawing 65,000 people to the streets.[73]
- 30 September: Océade waterpark closes to make way for the NEO project.[74][75]
- 14 October: Brussels municipal elections are held.[76]
- 20 November: The Brussels stabbing attack occurs, injuring 2 including the perpetrator.[77][78][79]
- 2019
- 1–5 May: The city celebrates 150 years of trams and 30 years of the Brussels-Capital Region with a historic tram procession and the European Tramdriver Championship.[80][81]
- 26 May: Brussels regional elections are held.
- 6 July: The 2019 Tour de France starts in the city.[82]
- 12 October: The MigratieMuseumMigration opens.[83]
- 11 December: The Ommegang is added to the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.[84][85]
- 14 December: Wolf Sharing Food Market opens in the former ASLK/CGER counter room, becoming the city's first food market.[86][87]
2020–2029
[edit]- 2020
- 2 February: The first recorded case of COVID-19 in Belgium after nine Belgian nationals living in Hubei are repatriated.
- 11 March: The first COVID-19 related death in Belgium is confirmed of a 90-year-old female patient who was being treated in Etterbeek.[88]
- 18 March: The city joins the rest of Belgium in a nationwide lockdown that lasts until 8 June in an attempt to reduce the number of cases.
- 7 June: About 10,000 protesters gather as part of the George Floyd protests in Belgium.[89][90]
- 4 December: Speculoos is added to the Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage in response to Lotus Bakeries renaming it "Biscoff" in Belgium.[91][92]
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- 2021
- 14 January: Riots erupt following the death of Ibrahima Barrie in police custody.[93]
- 26 February: The Bridge Productions is established as the first professional English theatre company in the city. [94][95]
- 10 October: The Back to the Climate protest occurs on the eve of COP26, with police reporting 25,000 participants and organisers claiming 50,000 to 70,000.[96]
- 2022
- 24 January: More than 50,000 people protest against COVID-19 rules.[97][98]
- 20 June: Patrice Lumumba's children receive their father's remains during a ceremony at the Egmont Palace.[99]
- 10 July: The Uber Files are published, revealing that Uber extensively lobbied regional transport minister Pascal Smet.[100][101][102]
- 30 September: Haren Prison opens.[103][104][105]
- 4 October: The Suzan Daniel Bridge opens over the Brussels–Scheldt Maritime Canal.[106][107]
- 10 November: The Brussels stabbing occurs, killing 1 and injuring 2 including the perpetrator.[108][109][110]
- 5 December: The trial of the perpetrators of the 2016 Brussels bombings begins.[111]
- 9 December: Police raids related to Qatargate are conducted across the city, leading to arrests in Belgium and Italy.[112][113]
- 2023
- 12 January: The Fuse temporarily closes after Brussels Environment restricts its operations due to a noise complaint. In direct response, clubbing culture is added to the Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage a few months later.[114][115][116]
- 18 May: The Archives of the International Solvay Conferences on Physics and Chemistry are added to the Memory of the World Register.[117][118]
- 22 June: Luc Terlinden is appointed Archbishop of Mechelen–Brussels.[119]
- 9 September: Belgian Beer World opens in the former Brussels Stock Exchange building, with the main hall now free and open to the public for the first time.[120][121]
- 14 September: The Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles becomes part of Université catholique de Louvain.[122]
- 16 October: The Brussels shooting occurs, killing 3 including the perpetrator and injuring 1.[123][124]
- 18 December: The largest criminal trial in Belgian history begins in the city following the shutdown of Sky Global.[125][126]
- 2024
- The Marc Sleen Museum closes and is integrated into the Belgian Comic Strip Center.[24]
- 1 February: The Monument to John Cockerill is vandalised during a farmers' protest in front of the European Parliament.[127]
- 9 June: Brussels regional elections are held.[128]
- 26–29 September: Pope Francis visits the city, presiding over a mass at King Baudouin Stadium, where he beatifies Anne of Jesus and announces the initiation of King Baudouin's beatification process.[129][130]
- 13 October: Brussels municipal elections are held.[131]
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