Events in the year 1637 in the Spanish Netherlands and Prince-bishopric of Liège (predecessor states of modern Belgium).
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Incumbents
editHabsburg Netherlands
edit- Monarch – Philip IV, King of Spain and Duke of Brabant, of Luxembourg, etc.
- Governor General – Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria
Prince-Bishopric of Liège
edit- Prince-Bishop – Ferdinand of Bavaria
Events
edit- April
- 16 April – Assassination of Sébastien de La Ruelle, former mayor of Liège, triggers anti-Spanish rioting.[1]
- July
- 21 July – Dutch forces besiege Breda.[2]
- 26 July – French forces commanded by Cardinal de La Valette take Landrecies.[3]
- August
- 7 August – Merchants of London formally protest seizure of English tobacco shipments to Holland.[1]
- 25 August – Venlo retaken.[2]
- September
- 3 September – Roermond retaken.[2]
- October
Publications
edit- Erycius Puteanus, De Bissexto (Leuven, Cornelius Coenestenius and Georgius Lipsius), available on Google Books.
- Arnold de la Porte, Compendio de la lengua española. Institutie vande Spaensche tale (Antwerp, Caesar Joachim Trognaesius), dedicated to Johannes Chrysostomus vander Sterre. Available on Google Books
Works of art
edit- Peter Paul Rubens – The Origin of the Milky Way, now in the Museo del Prado, Madrid
Births
edit- January
- June
- 27 June – Alexander Voet the Younger, print maker (died 1693/1705)
- September
- 14 September – Renier Meganck, painter (died 1690)
Deaths
edit- Date uncertain
- March
- 12 March – Cornelius a Lapide (born 1567), Jesuit exegete
- April
- 16 April – Sébastien de La Ruelle, mayor of Liège
- 17 April – René de Renesse, 1st Count of Warfusée (born c. 1580), conspirator
- June
- 6 June – Pieter Huyssens (born 1577), Jesuit architect
- July
- 12 July – Willem van Haecht (born 1593), painter
- September
- 14 September
- Joannes Cnobbaert (born 1590), bookseller and printmaker
- Theodoor Rombouts (born 1597), painter
- November
- 4 November – Michael Ophovius (born 1570), bishop of 's-Hertogenbosch
- 23 November – Carlos Coloma (born 1566), former commander in the Army of Flanders
References
edit- ^ a b c Alain de Gueldre, et al., eds., Chronique de la Belgique (RTL, 1987), p. 389.
- ^ a b c d Olaf van Nimwegen, The Dutch Army and the Military Revolutions, 1588-1688, translated by Andrew May (Woodbridge, 2010), p. 254. Partial preview on Google Books.
- ^ Olaf van Nimwegen, The Dutch Army and the Military Revolutions, 1588-1688, translated by Andrew May (Woodbridge, 2010), p. 253. Partial preview on Google Books.