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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.[1]
 - 8 February – French-Dutch treaty to partition the Spanish Netherlands, preliminary to the Franco-Spanish War (1635–59).[1]
 
- March
 
- 26 March – Ferdinand seizes Trier and has Archbishop-Elector Philipp Christoph von Sötern imprisoned.[1]
 
- April
 
- 11 April – Formal representations from Balthazar Gerbier, English resident in Brussels, about Dunkirkers interfering with English shipping.[1]
 - 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.[2]
 
- 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).[3]
 - 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.[1]
 
- June
 
- 2 June – French-Dutch manifesto calls on inhabitants of the Spanish Netherlands to rise against their government.[1]
 - 8 June – Sack of Tienen by combined French-Dutch forces.[1]
 - 21 June – French-Dutch army crosses the Dijle near Overijse.[4]
 - 24 June – Siege of Leuven commences.[1]
 
- July
 
- 4 July – Siege of Leuven raised.
 - 22 July – Gaspard Nemius consecrated bishop of Antwerp in Antwerp Cathedral.[5]
 - 28 July – Army of Flanders takes Schenkenschans.[6]
 
Publications
- Robert Bellarmine, An ample Declaration of the Christian Doctrine, translated by R. H. (Mechelen, Henry Jaye).
 - Cornelius Jansen, Mars Gallicus ([Leuven, Jacobus Zegers]).[1] 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
 
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Alain de Gueldre, et al., eds., Chronique de la Belgique (RTL, 1987), p. 388.
 - ↑ P. Génard, "Intrede van den Prins-Kardinaal Ferdinand van Spanje te Antwerpen, op 17 april 1635", Antwerpsch Archievenblad, 13 (1876), pp. 296–309.
 - ↑ Copie des Arrests rendus au grand Conseil de sa Majesté le 2. de May 1635, contre le Prince d'Espinoy, & Charles de Pienne (Mechelen, Henry Jaye, 1635), available on Google Books.
 - ↑ Olaf van Nimwegen, The Dutch Army and the Military Revolutions, 1588-1688, translated by Andrew May (Woodbridge, 2010), p. 247. Partial preview on Google Books.
 - ↑ Léopold Devillers, "Nemius (Gaspard)", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 15, (Brussels, 1899), 583-584.
 - ↑ Olaf van Nimwegen, The Dutch Army and the Military Revolutions, 1588-1688, translated by Andrew May (Woodbridge, 2010), p. 248. Partial preview on Google Books.
 
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