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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
- 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
References
- ^ Alain de Gueldre, et al., eds., Chronique de la Belgique (RTL, 1987), p. 389.
- ^ Olaf van Nimwegen, The Dutch Army and the Military Revolutions, 1588-1688, translated by Andrew May (Woodbridge, 2010), p. 254. Partial preview on Google Books.
- Olaf van Nimwegen, The Dutch Army and the Military Revolutions, 1588-1688, translated by Andrew May (Woodbridge, 2010), p. 253. Partial preview on Google Books.
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