1638 in Belgium

Events in the year 1638 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

 * 23 January – Exports of grain prohibited.
 * 24 May – French forces invest St Omer
 * 20 June – Battle of Kallo
 * 16 July – Siege of Saint-Omer lifted
 * 26 August – Dutch siege of Geldern lifted
 * 16 September – Jesuit College in Brussels stages Conversio S. Augustini

Publications

 * Relation de tout ce qui s'est passé au siège et prise de Breme (Antwerp, Plantin Press)
 * Honorius Vanden Born (pen name of Erycius Puteanus), Sedigh leven, daghelycks broodt (Leuven, Everaert De Witte)
 * Jean-Jacques Courvoisier, L'Austriche saincte, ou l'Idée du vrai prélat, tirée de la vie parfaite et innocente de S. Maximilian, apôtre et patron de l'Autriche (Brussels, G. Schoevaerts)

Works of art

 * Peter Paul Rubens, Het Pelsken, now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna
 * Anthony van Dyck, Triple Portrait of Henrietta Maria, now in the Royal Collection (2 parts) and the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art (1 part)

Births

 * Date uncertain
 * Arnold de Jode, engraver
 * David Teniers III, painter
 * 6 February – Philips Erard van der Noot, bishop (died 1730)
 * 3 June – Jean-Guillaume Carlier, painter (died 1675)

Deaths

 * Date uncertain
 * Pieter Brueghel the Younger (born 1564), painter
 * Andreas de Nole (born 1598), sculptor
 * Jan Roos (born 1591), painter
 * 10 March – Cornelis van der Geest (born 1575), merchant
 * 30 April – Guillaume de Steenhuys (born 1558), magistrate
 * 6 May – Cornelius Jansen (born 1585), theologian
 * 22 May – Hendrik van den Bergh (born 1573), nobleman
 * 5 August – Peter Minuit (born 1580/85), governor of New Netherland
 * 1 October – Jan Snellinck (born c. 1548), painter