1633 in Belgium

Events in the year 1633 in the Spanish Netherlands and Prince-bishopric of Liège (predecessor states of modern Belgium).

Habsburg Netherlands

 * Monarch – Philip IV, King of Spain and Duke of Brabant, of Luxembourg, etc.


 * Governor General – Isabella Clara Eugenia, Infanta of Spain, to 1 December; then Marquis of Aytona as acting governor-general

Prince-Bishopric of Liège

 * Prince-Bishop – Ferdinand of Bavaria

Events

 * January
 * 27 January – Isabella approves a peace deal with the Dutch Republic on the condition of acknowledgement of Habsburg sovereignty.


 * April
 * 1 April – Dutch refuse to acknowledge Habsburg sovereignty; peace talks at an impasse.
 * 24 April – Great Council of Mechelen sentences René de Renesse, 1st Count of Warfusée to perpetual banishment and forfeiture of all goods for his role in the Conspiracy of Nobles.


 * May
 * 11 May – Siege of Rheinberg commences.


 * December
 * 27 December – Peace talks in The Hague abandoned.

Publications

 * Godefridus Vereycken, Tractatus de cognitione et conservatione sui (Mechelen, Henry Jaye), dedicated to the city of Antwerp.
 * Richardus Versteganus, Medicamenten teghen de melancholie (Antwerp, Hendrik Aertssens), dedicated to Johannes Chrysostomus vander Sterre.

Births

 * Date uncertain
 * Theodoor Aenvanck, painter (died 1690)
 * Francisco Marcos de Velasco, governor of Antwerp Citadel (died 1693)


 * May
 * 8 May – Charles Eugene, 2nd Duke of Arenberg (died 1681)


 * August
 * 29 August – Louis-Alexander Scockart, diplomat (died 1708)

Deaths

 * Date uncertain
 * Boetius à Bolswert (born c. 1585), engraver
 * Jan de Wael I (born 1558), painter


 * March
 * 27 March – Peeter Cornet (born 1570/80), composer and organist


 * May
 * 31 May – Giles de Coninck (born 1571), Jesuit theologian


 * October
 * 21 October – Johannes Malderus (born 1563), bishop of Antwerp


 * December
 * 1 December – Isabella Clara Eugenia (born 1566), princess
 * 11 December – Gilles du Faing (born c. 1560), soldier and diplomat
 * 18 December – Theodoor Galle (born 1571), engraver.