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.[1]
• 8 February – French-Dutch treaty to partition the Spanish Netherlands, preliminary to the Franco-Spanish War (1635–59).[1]

March

• 26 March – Ferdinand seizes Trier and has Archbishop-Elector Philipp Christoph von Sötern imprisoned.[1]

April

• 11 April – Formal representations from Balthazar Gerbier, English resident in Brussels, about Dunkirkers interfering with English shipping.[1]
• 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.[2]

May

• 2 May – Great Council of Mechelen condemns Guillaume III de Melun, prince of Epinoy, in absentia as a traitor for his role in the Conspiracy of Nobles (1632).[3]
• 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.[1]

June

• 2 June – French-Dutch manifesto calls on inhabitants of the Spanish Netherlands to rise against their government.[1]
• 8 June – Sack of Tienen by combined French-Dutch forces.[1]
• 21 June – French-Dutch army crosses the Dijle near Overijse.[4]
• 24 June – Siege of Leuven commences.[1]

July

• 4 July – Siege of Leuven raised.
• 22 July – Gaspard Nemius consecrated bishop of Antwerp in Antwerp Cathedral.[5]
• 28 July – 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 – 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

References

1. Alain de Gueldre, et al., eds., Chronique de la Belgique (RTL, 1987), p. 388.
2. P. Génard, "Intrede van den Prins-Kardinaal Ferdinand van Spanje te Antwerpen, op 17 april 1635", Antwerpsch Archievenblad, 13 (1876), pp. 296–309.
3. Copie des Arrests rendus au grand Conseil de sa Majesté le 2. de May 1635, contre le Prince d'Espinoy, & Charles de Pienne (Mechelen, Henry Jaye, 1635), available on Google Books.
4. Olaf van Nimwegen, The Dutch Army and the Military Revolutions, 1588-1688, translated by Andrew May (Woodbridge, 2010), p. 247. Partial preview on Google Books.
5. Léopold Devillers, "Nemius (Gaspard)", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 15, (Brussels, 1899), 583-584.
6. Olaf van Nimwegen, The Dutch Army and the Military Revolutions, 1588-1688, translated by Andrew May (Woodbridge, 2010), p. 248. Partial preview on Google Books.