1637 in Belgium

Events in the year 1637 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
 * 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