1635 in Belgium

Events in the year 1635 in the Spanish Netherlands and Prince-bishopric of Liège (predecessor states of modern Belgium).

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Decades:	1630s 1650s
See also:	Other events of 1635 List of years in Belgium

Incumbents

Habsburg Netherlands

Monarch – Philip IV, King of Spain and Duke of Brabant, of Luxembourg, etc.

Governor General – Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria

Prince-Bishopric of Liège

Prince-Bishop – Ferdinand of Bavaria

Events

January

• 28 January – Joyous entry into Ghent of Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria as new governor general, Gaspar de Crayer playing a key role in the monumental decorations.

February

• Panel of experts at University of Louvain decrees that tobacco has no nutritional value.
• 8 February – French-Dutch treaty to partition the Spanish Netherlands, preliminary to the Franco-Spanish War (1635–59).

March

• 26 March – Ferdinand seizes Trier and has Archbishop-Elector Philipp Christoph von Sötern imprisoned.

April

• 11 April – Formal representations from Balthazar Gerbier, English resident in Brussels, about Dunkirkers interfering with English shipping.
• 17 April – Joyous entry into Antwerp of Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria as new governor general, Gaspar Gevartius co-ordinating the reception and Peter Paul Rubens playing a key role in the monumental decorations.

May

• 2 May – Great Council of Mechelen condemns Guillaume de Melun, Prince of Espinoy, in absentia as a traitor for his role in the Conspiracy of Nobles (1632).
• 20 May – Battle of Les Avins: French forces defeat a detachment of the Army of Flanders commanded by Thomas of Savoy, sent to prevent them linking up with the Dutch.

June

• 2 June – French-Dutch manifesto calls on inhabitants of the Spanish Netherlands to rise against their government.
• 8 June – Sack of Tienen by combined French-Dutch forces.
• 21 June – French-Dutch army crosses the Dijle near Overijse.
• 24 June – Siege of Leuven commences.

July

• 4 July – Siege of Leuven raised.
• 22 July – Gaspard Nemius consecrated bishop of Antwerp in Antwerp Cathedral.
• 28 July – Army of Flanders takes Schenkenschans.

Publications

• Robert Bellarmine, An ample Declaration of the Christian Doctrine, translated by R. H. (Mechelen, Henry Jaye).
• Cornelius Jansen, Mars Gallicus ([Leuven, Jacobus Zegers]). On Google Books
• Discours sur la rencontre du temps et des affaires presente par un vieulx cavalier francois a monseigneur le duc Dorleans (Brussels, Jean Pepermans). Available on Google Books
• Lettre de sa Majesté Imperiale a son agent a Rome, contenant les raisons pour lesquelles il a faict la paix avec le Duc de Saxe M. DC. XXXV (Brussels, Jean Pepermans).

Works of art

• Peter Paul Rubens
  • The Dance of the Villagers, now in the Prado Museum, Madrid
  • The Village Fête, now in the Louvre Museum, Paris
  • Helena Fourment with Her Son Frans, now in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich
  • The Feast of Venus, now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Births

Date uncertain

• Francis van Bossuit, sculptor (died 1692)
• Daniel Danielis, composer (died 1696)
• Joannes Florentius a Kempis, composer (died after 1711)
• Joseph Roettiers, medallist (died 1703)

January

• 10 January – Alexander Farnese, Prince of Parma, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands 1678–1682 (died 1689)

March

• 10 March – Jan van Buken, painter (died 1690)

August

• 30 August – Pieter Spierinckx, painter (died 1711)

Deaths

Date uncertain

• Jean-Baptiste Gramaye (born 1579), historian
• Marquis of Aytona (born 1586), former acting governor-general of the Spanish Netherlands
• William Trumbull (born around 1575), former English ambassador to Brussels

February

• 5 February – Joos de Momper (born 1564), painter

October

• on or shortly after 24 October – Willem van Nieulandt II (born 1584), painter and poet

November

• 11 November – Paul Boudot (born 1571), bishop

December

• 2 December – Godfried Vereycken (born 1558), physician