• Source: 1637 in Belgium

Events in the year 1637 in the Spanish Netherlands and Prince-bishopric of Liège (predecessor states of modern Belgium).




Incumbents






= Habsburg Netherlands

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Monarch – Philip IV, King of Spain and Duke of Brabant, of Luxembourg, etc.
Governor General – Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria




= Prince-Bishopric of Liège

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Prince-Bishop – Ferdinand of Bavaria




Events


April
16 April – Assassination of Sébastien de La Ruelle, former mayor of Liège, triggers anti-Spanish rioting.
July
21 July – Dutch forces besiege Breda.
26 July – French forces commanded by Cardinal de La Valette take Landrecies.
August
7 August – Merchants of London formally protest seizure of English tobacco shipments to Holland.
25 August – Venlo retaken.
September
3 September – Roermond retaken.
October
7 October – Breda lost.




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
4 November – Michael Ophovius (born 1570), bishop of 's-Hertogenbosch
23 November – Carlos Coloma (born 1566), former commander in the Army of Flanders




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