1637 in Belgium
# 1637 in Belgium

Events in the year 1637 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

### 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

### June

* 27 June – Alexander Voet the Younger, print maker (died 1693/1705)

### September

* 14 September – Renier Meganck, painter (died 1690)

## Deaths

### 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

* 23 November – Carlos Coloma (born 1566), former commander in the Army of Flanders
