1635 in Belgium

Events in the year 1635 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 – 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.
 * 8 February – French-Dutch treaty to partition the Spanish Netherlands, preliminary to the Franco-Spanish War (1635–59).


 * March
 * 26 March – Ferdinand seizes Trier and has Archbishop-Elector Philipp Christoph von Sötern imprisoned.


 * April
 * 11 April – Formal representations from Balthazar Gerbier, English resident in Brussels, about Dunkirkers interfering with English shipping.
 * 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.


 * May
 * 2 May – Great Council of Mechelen condemns Guillaume de Melun, Prince of Espinoy, in absentia as a traitor for his role in the Conspiracy of Nobles (1632).
 * 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.


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


 * July
 * 4 July – Siege of Leuven raised.
 * 22 July – Gaspard Nemius consecrated bishop of Antwerp in Antwerp Cathedral.
 * 28 July – Army of Flanders takes Schenkenschans.

Publications

 * Robert Bellarmine, An ample Declaration of the Christian Doctrine, translated by R. H. (Mechelen, Henry Jaye).
 * Cornelius Jansen, Mars Gallicus ([Leuven, Jacobus Zegers]). 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


 * December
 * 2 December – Godfried Vereycken (born 1558), physician