1635 in Belgium

{{short description|Historical Belgian rvents}}

{{Year in Belgium|1635}}

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

Incumbents

=Habsburg Netherlands=

:MonarchPhilip IV, King of Spain and Duke of Brabant, of Luxembourg, etc.

:Governor GeneralCardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria

=Prince-Bishopric of Liège=

:Prince-BishopFerdinand of Bavaria

Events

;January

;February

  • Panel of experts at University of Louvain decrees that tobacco has no nutritional value.Alain de Gueldre, et al., eds., Chronique de la Belgique (RTL, 1987), p. 388.
  • 8 February – French-Dutch treaty to partition the Spanish Netherlands, preliminary to the Franco-Spanish War (1635–59).

;March

;April

;May

;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.Olaf van Nimwegen, The Dutch Army and the Military Revolutions, 1588-1688, translated by Andrew May (Woodbridge, 2010), p. 247. [https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1843835754 Partial preview on Google Books].
  • 24 June – Siege of Leuven commences.

;July

Publications

  • Robert Bellarmine, An ample Declaration of the Christian Doctrine, translated by R. H. (Mechelen, Henry Jaye).
  • Cornelius Jansen, Mars Gallicus ([Leuven, Jacobus Zegers]). [https://books.google.com/books?id=ASyIzzzw8LUC 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). [https://books.google.com/books?id=xTdQAAAAcAAJ 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

Births

;Date uncertain

;January

;March

;August

Deaths

;Date uncertain

;February

;October

;November

;December

References

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