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.Placcaertboeck van Vlaanderen, Volume 3, part 2 (Ghent, 1685), pp. 932-933. On Google Books 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. AugustiniGoran 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.
Art and architecture Paintings 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)
Publications Relation de tout ce qui s'est passé au siège et prise de Breme (Antwerp, Plantin Press)Relation on Google Books. 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)On Google Books Jean de Wachtendonck, Vita, passio, et miracula S. Rumoldi archiepiscopi Dublinensis, Apostoli Mechliniensis & martyris (Mechelen, Henry Jaye)
Newspapers Nieuwe Tydinghen uyt verscheyde ghewesten (Bruges, Nicolaes Breyghel)
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
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