1637 in Belgium

Events in the year 1637 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 1637 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

• 16 April – Assassination of Sébastien de La Ruelle, former mayor of Liège, triggers anti-Spanish rioting.[1]

July

• 21 July – Dutch forces besiege Breda.[2]
• 26 July – French forces commanded by Cardinal de La Valette take Landrecies.[3]

August

• 7 August – Merchants of London formally protest seizure of English tobacco shipments to Holland.[1]
• 25 August – Venlo retaken.[2]

September

• 3 September – Roermond retaken.[2]

October

• 7 October – Breda lost.[1][2]

Publications

• Erycius Puteanus, De Bissexto (Leuven, Cornelius Coenestenius and Georgius Lipsius), available on Google Books.
• Arnold de la Porte, Compendio de la lengua española. Institutie vande Spaensche tale (Antwerp, Caesar Joachim Trognaesius), dedicated to Johannes Chrysostomus vander Sterre. Available on Google Books

Works of art

• Peter Paul Rubens – The Origin of the Milky Way, now in the Museo del Prado, Madrid

Births

January

June

• 27 June – Alexander Voet the Younger, print maker (died 1693/1705)

September

• 14 September – Renier Meganck, painter (died 1690)

Deaths

Date uncertain

March

• 12 March – Cornelius a Lapide (born 1567), Jesuit exegete

April

• 16 April – Sébastien de La Ruelle, mayor of Liège
• 17 April – René de Renesse, 1st Count of Warfusée (born c. 1580), conspirator

June

• 6 June – Pieter Huyssens (born 1577), Jesuit architect

July

• 12 July – Willem van Haecht (born 1593), painter

September

• 14 September
  • Joannes Cnobbaert (born 1590), bookseller and printmaker
  • Theodoor Rombouts (born 1597), painter

November

• 23 November – Carlos Coloma (born 1566), former commander in the Army of Flanders

References

1. Alain de Gueldre, et al., eds., Chronique de la Belgique (RTL, 1987), p. 389.
2. Olaf van Nimwegen, The Dutch Army and the Military Revolutions, 1588-1688, translated by Andrew May (Woodbridge, 2010), p. 254. Partial preview on Google Books.
3. Olaf van Nimwegen, The Dutch Army and the Military Revolutions, 1588-1688, translated by Andrew May (Woodbridge, 2010), p. 253. Partial preview on Google Books.