Events in the year 1636 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 29 April – Dutch forces retake Schenkenschans.Olaf van Nimwegen, The Dutch Army and the Military Revolutions, 1588-1688, translated by Andrew May (Woodbridge, 2010), p. 249. Partial preview on Google Books.
July 2 July – Army of Flanders goes onto the offensive in the Franco-Spanish War (1635–59), invading French territory. 17 July – People of Liège appeal to Pope Urban VIII against imperial troops called in by prince-bishop Ferdinand.Alain de Gueldre, et al., eds., Chronique de la Belgique (RTL, 1987), p. 389.
August 5 August – Crossing of the Somme by the Army of Flanders. 7 August – Corbie invested. 15 August – Corbie taken.
November 14 November – French forces retake Corbie.
Publications Lazarus Marcquis, Volcomen tractaet van de peste (Antwerp, Caesar Joachim Trognaesius) – a treatise on the pestilence.Marcquis, Volcomen tractaet on the Internet Archive Aubertus Miraeus, Rerum Belgicarum chronicon (Antwerp, Willem Lesteens)Miraeus, Rerum Belgicarum on Google Books Nicolaus Vernulaeus, Fritlandus Tragoedia (Leuven, Josse Coppens) Nicolaus Vernulaeus, Dissertatio oratoria de causis occupatae a Francis Lotharingiae (Leuven, Jacob AZegers)
Works of art Anthony van Dyck – Charles I in Three Positions, now in the Royal Collection. Peter Paul Rubens Hercules' Dog Discovers Purple Dye, now in the Musée Bonnat, Bayonne. Helena Fourment with Children, now in the Louvre Museum, Paris. Saturn, now in the Museo del Prado, Madrid. The Rainbow Landscape, now in the Wallace Collection, London. A View of Het Steen in the Early Morning, now in the National Gallery, London.
Births January 12 January – Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, painter (died 1699)
June 22 June – Albertus Clouwet, engraver (died 1679)
Deaths Date uncertain Philippe de Caverel (born 1555), abbot Matthijs Langhedul, organ builder Joannes Woverius (born 1576), councillor
January 19 January – Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger (born 1561/2), painter
June 21 June – Justus de Harduwijn (born 1582), poet
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