1638 in Belgium
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Events in the year 1638 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
- 23 January â Exports of grain prohibited.[1]
- 24 May â French forces invest St Omer
- 20 June â Battle of Kallo
- 16 July â Siege of Saint-Omer lifted
- 26 August â Dutch siege of Geldern lifted
- 16 September â Jesuit College in Brussels stages Conversio S. Augustini[2]
Publications
- Relation de tout ce qui s'est passé au siège et prise de Breme (Antwerp, Plantin Press)[3]
- Honorius Vanden Born (pen name of Erycius Puteanus), Sedigh leven, daghelycks broodt (Leuven, Everaert De Witte)[4]
- Jean-Jacques Courvoisier, L'Austriche saincte, ou l'Idée du vrai prélat, tirée de la vie parfaite et innocente de S. Maximilian, apôtre et patron de l'Autriche (Brussels, G. Schoevaerts)[5]
Works of art
- Peter Paul Rubens, Het Pelsken, now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna
- Anthony van Dyck, Triple Portrait of Henrietta Maria, now in the Royal Collection (2 parts) and the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art (1 part)
Births
- Date uncertain
- Arnold de Jode, engraver
- David Teniers III, painter
- 6 February â Philips Erard van der Noot, bishop (died 1730)
- 3 June â Jean-Guillaume Carlier, painter (died 1675)
Deaths
- Date uncertain
- Pieter Brueghel the Younger (born 1564), painter
- Andreas de Nole (born 1598), sculptor
- Jan Roos (born 1591), painter
- 10 March â Cornelis van der Geest (born 1575), merchant
- 30 April â Guillaume de Steenhuys (born 1558), magistrate
- 6 May â Cornelius Jansen (born 1585), theologian
- 22 May â Hendrik van den Bergh (born 1573), nobleman
- 5 August â Peter Minuit (born 1580/85), governor of New Netherland
- 1 October â Jan Snellinck (born c. 1548), painter