1719 in Belgium

Events in the year 1719 in the Austrian Netherlands and Prince-bishopric of Liège (predecessor states of modern Belgium).

Habsburg Netherlands

 * Monarch – Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, Duke of Brabant, of Luxembourg, etc.


 * Governor General – Prince Eugene of Savoy
 * Acting Governor General — Hercule-Louis Turinetti

Prince-Bishopric of Liège

 * Prince-Bishop – Joseph Clemens of Bavaria

Events

 * 15 January — Pope Clement IX issues the breve Pietatis vestrae in response to a letter from the bishops of the Austrian Netherlands protesting their adherence to the 1713 bull Unigenitus.
 * 5 February — The Saint-Joseph sets sail from Ostend for Canton.
 * 3 August — The Saint-Joseph from Ostend arrives in Canton.
 * 9 September — Frans Anneessens, dean of the masons' guild, condemned to death for resisting innovations in city government detrimental to the power of the guilds of Brussels.
 * 19 September — Frans Anneessens beheaded in Brussels.
 * 16 October — Bishop Hendrik Jozef van Susteren reopens Bruges seminary (closed in 1632).
 * 22 October — Confraternity of St Joseph re-established in Bruges.
 * 16 November — Oratorian College, Mechelen, celebrates a former student, Henricus van Gaemeren, graduating from Leuven University as first in his year.
 * 27 November — The Saint-Joseph, from Ostend, sets sail from Canton laden with tea, porcelain, silk, and Chinese roots.

Art and architecture

 * Art objects
 * Silver monstrance (pictured)


 * Paintings
 * Louis Counet, Allégorie de la Religion, Liège town hall


 * Buildings
 * Kasteel De Mot, Ternat
 * Lindemansschool, Roosdaal

Publications

 * Bernaert de Jonghe, Belgium Dominicanum sive historia Provinciæ Germaniæ Inferioris sacri ordinis FF. Prædicatorum (Brussels, Francisci Foppens)

Births

 * 11 June — François-Charles de Velbrück, prince-bishop of Liège (died 1784)
 * 3 December — Jean Charles Joseph de Merode, nobleman (died 1774)

Deaths

 * Date unknown — Jan Baptist Brueghel (born 1647), painter
 * 6 February — Paul de Bruyn (born 1646), abbot of Park.
 * 9 March — Peeter van Bredael (born 1629), painter
 * 19 September — Frans Anneessens (born 1660), guildmaster
 * 27 October — François Baert (born 1651), Bollandist
 * 3 December — Adriaen Frans Boudewijns (born 1644), painter