1633 in Belgium
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Events in the year 1633 in the Spanish Netherlands and Prince-bishopric of Liège (predecessor states of modern Belgium).
Incumbents
Habsburg Netherlands
- Monarch â Philip IV, King of Spain and Duke of Brabant, of Luxembourg, etc.
- Governor General â Isabella Clara Eugenia, Infanta of Spain, to 1 December; then Marquis of Aytona as acting governor-general
Prince-Bishopric of Liège
- Prince-Bishop â Ferdinand of Bavaria
Events
- January
- 27 January â Isabella approves a peace deal with the Dutch Republic on the condition of acknowledgement of Habsburg sovereignty.[1]
- April
- 1 April â Dutch refuse to acknowledge Habsburg sovereignty; peace talks at an impasse.[1]
- 24 April â Great Council of Mechelen sentences René de Renesse, 1st Count of Warfusée to perpetual banishment and forfeiture of all goods for his role in the Conspiracy of Nobles.[1]
- May
- 11 May â Siege of Rheinberg commences.[1]
- December
- 27 December â Peace talks in The Hague abandoned.[1]
Publications
- Godefridus Vereycken, Tractatus de cognitione et conservatione sui (Mechelen, Henry Jaye), dedicated to the city of Antwerp.[2]
- Richardus Versteganus, Medicamenten teghen de melancholie (Antwerp, Hendrik Aertssens), dedicated to Johannes Chrysostomus vander Sterre.
Births
- Date uncertain
- Theodoor Aenvanck, painter (died 1690)
- Francisco Marcos de Velasco, governor of Antwerp Citadel (died 1693)
- May
- 8 May â Charles Eugene, 2nd Duke of Arenberg (died 1681)
- August
- 29 August â Louis-Alexander Scockart, diplomat (died 1708)
Deaths
- Date uncertain
- Boetius à Bolswert (born c. 1585), engraver
- Adrien de Fléron (born 1577), clergyman
- Jan de Wael I (born 1558), painter
- March
- 27 March â Peeter Cornet (born 1570/80), composer and organist
- May
- 31 May â Giles de Coninck (born 1571), Jesuit theologian
- October
- 21 October â Johannes Malderus (born 1563), bishop of Antwerp
- December
- 1 December â Isabella Clara Eugenia (born 1566), princess
- 11 December â Gilles du Faing (born c.â1560), soldier and diplomat
- 18 December â Theodoor Galle (born 1571), engraver.