Events in the year 1633 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 – Isabella Clara Eugenia, Infanta of Spain, to 1 December; then Marquis of Aytona as acting governor-general
Prince-Bishopric of Liège Prince-Bishop – Ferdinand of Bavaria
Events January 27 January – Isabella approves a peace deal with the Dutch Republic on the condition of acknowledgement of Habsburg sovereignty.Alain de Gueldre, et al., eds., Chronique de la Belgique (RTL, 1987), p. 387.
April 1 April – Dutch refuse to acknowledge Habsburg sovereignty; peace talks at an impasse. 24 April – Great Council of Mechelen sentences René de Renesse, 1st Count of Warfusée to perpetual banishment and forfeiture of all goods for his role in the Conspiracy of Nobles.
May 11 May – Siege of Rheinberg commences.
December 27 December – Peace talks in The Hague abandoned.
Publications Godefridus Vereycken, Tractatus de cognitione et conservatione sui (Mechelen, Henry Jaye), dedicated to the city of Antwerp.Scans of Tractatus from the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library on Google Books. Richardus Versteganus, Medicamenten teghen de melancholie (Antwerp, Hendrik Aertssens), dedicated to Johannes Chrysostomus vander Sterre.
Births Date uncertain Theodoor Aenvanck, painter (died 1690) Francisco Marcos de Velasco, governor of Antwerp Citadel (died 1693)
May 8 May – Charles Eugene, 2nd Duke of Arenberg (died 1681)
August 29 August – Louis-Alexander Scockart, diplomat (died 1708)
Deaths Date uncertain Boetius à Bolswert (born c. 1585), engraver Adrien de Fléron (born 1577), clergyman Jan de Wael I (born 1558), painter
March 27 March – Peeter Cornet (born 1570/80), composer and organist
May 31 May – Giles de Coninck (born 1571), Jesuit theologian
October 21 October – Johannes Malderus (born 1563), bishop of Antwerp
December 1 December – Isabella Clara Eugenia (born 1566), princess 11 December – Gilles du Faing (born ), soldier and diplomat 18 December – Theodoor Galle (born 1571), engraver.
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