1636 in Belgium

Events in the year 1636 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 1636 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

April

• 29 April – Dutch forces retake Schenkenschans.[1]

July

• 2 July – Army of Flanders goes onto the offensive in the Franco-Spanish War (1635–59), invading French territory.
• 17 July – People of Liège appeal to Pope Urban VIII against imperial troops called in by prince-bishop Ferdinand.[2]

August

• 5 August – Crossing of the Somme by the Army of Flanders.
• 7 August – Corbie invested.
• 15 August – Corbie taken.

November

• 14 November – French forces retake Corbie.

Publications

• Lazarus Marcquis, Volcomen tractaet van de peste (Antwerp, Caesar Joachim Trognaesius) – a treatise on the pestilence. Available on the Internet Archive

Works of art

• Anthony van Dyck – Charles I in Three Positions, now in the Royal Collection.
• Peter Paul Rubens
  • Hercules' Dog Discovers Purple Dye, now in the Musée Bonnat, Bayonne.
  • Helena Fourment with Children, now in the Louvre Museum, Paris.
  • Saturn, now in the Museo del Prado, Madrid.
  • The Rainbow Landscape, now in the Wallace Collection, London.
  • A View of Het Steen in the Early Morning, now in the National Gallery, London.

Births

January

• 12 January – Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, painter (died 1699)

June

• 22 June – Albertus Clouwet, engraver (died 1679)

Deaths

Date uncertain

• Philippe de Caverel (born 1555), abbot
• Matthijs Langhedul, organ builder
• Joannes Woverius (born 1576), councillor

January

• 19 January – Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger (born 1561/2), painter

June

• 21 June – Justus de Harduwijn (born 1582), poet

References

1. Olaf van Nimwegen, The Dutch Army and the Military Revolutions, 1588-1688, translated by Andrew May (Woodbridge, 2010), p. 249. Partial preview on Google Books.
2. Alain de Gueldre, et al., eds., Chronique de la Belgique (RTL, 1987), p. 389.