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See also:	Other events of 1638 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1638 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

• 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

References

1. Placcaertboeck van Vlaanderen, Volume 3, part 2 (Ghent, 1685), pp. 932-933. On Google Books
2. Goran Proot, "Augustine on Stage in the Southern Low Countries", in Augustine beyond the Book, edited by Karla Pollmann and Meredith J. Gill (Leiden and Boston, 2012), p. 114.
3. Relation on Google Books.
4. Erycius Puteanus (1999). Hugo Dehennin (ed.). "Sedigh leven, daghelycks broodt (1639)". Digital Library for Dutch Literature. Ghent: Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde. p. 8.
5. On Google Books

• 1638 in the Habsburg Netherlands