1635 in Belgium
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Events in the year 1635 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 Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria
Prince-Bishopric of Liège
- Prince-Bishop â Ferdinand of Bavaria
Events
- January
- 28 January â 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.[1]
- 8 February â French-Dutch treaty to partition the Spanish Netherlands, preliminary to the Franco-Spanish War (1635â59).[1]
- March
- 26 March â Ferdinand seizes Trier and has Archbishop-Elector Philipp Christoph von Sötern imprisoned.[1]
- April
- 11 April â Formal representations from Balthazar Gerbier, English resident in Brussels, about Dunkirkers interfering with English shipping.[1]
- 17 April â 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.[2]
- May
- 2 May â 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).[3]
- 20 May â 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.[1]
- June
- 2 June â French-Dutch manifesto calls on inhabitants of the Spanish Netherlands to rise against their government.[1]
- 8 June â Sack of Tienen by combined French-Dutch forces.[1]
- 21 June â French-Dutch army crosses the Dijle near Overijse.[4]
- 24 June â Siege of Leuven commences.[1]
- July
- 4 July â Siege of Leuven raised.
- 22 July â Gaspard Nemius consecrated bishop of Antwerp in Antwerp Cathedral.[5]
- 28 July â Army of Flanders takes Schenkenschans.[6]
Publications
- Robert Bellarmine, An ample Declaration of the Christian Doctrine, translated by R. H. (Mechelen, Henry Jaye).
- Cornelius Jansen, Mars Gallicus ([Leuven, Jacobus Zegers]).[1] 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 â Alexander Farnese, Prince of Parma, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands 1678â1682 (died 1689)
- March
- 10 March â Jan van Buken, painter (died 1690)
- August
- 30 August â 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 â Joos de Momper (born 1564), painter
- October
- on or shortly after 24 October â Willem van Nieulandt II (born 1584), painter and poet
- November
- 11 November â Paul Boudot (born 1571), bishop
- December
- 2 December â Godfried Vereycken (born 1558), physician