1635 in Belgium
# 1635 in Belgium

Events in the year 1635 in the Spanish Netherlands and Prince-bishopric of Liège (predecessor states of modern Belgium).

## Incumbents

### 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 III de Melun, prince of Epinoy, 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
