1636 in Belgium

Events in the year 1636 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

 * April
 * 29 April – Dutch forces retake Schenkenschans.


 * 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.


 * 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