Events in the year 1628 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
Prince-Bishopric of Liège Prince-Bishop – Ferdinand of Bavaria
Events 3 January – Ambrogio Spinola summoned to Spain.Alain de Gueldre (ed.), Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987). 10 June – Brussels government issues directives for the maintenance of roads, ditches and bridges.René Vermeir (ed.), Recueil des ordonnances des Pays-Bas. Deuxième Série: Règne de Philippe IV (1621-1665), vol. 1 (Brussels, 2023) 18 June – Albert de Ligne, Prince of Barbançon, invested as a Knight of the Golden Fleece.Louis Prosper Gachard, "Barbançon, Albert de Ligne, prince de", Biographie nationale de Belgique, vol. 1 (Brussels, 1866), 686-698. 10 July – Royal proclamation on the licensing of taverns and hostelries in the Duchy of Brabant, and the prosecution of crimes of violence taking place in them. 27 July – City of Antwerp orders public thanksgiving for deliverance from plague 31 July – Royal proclamation regulating the size and weight of butter tubs in the County of Flanders 3 November – Royal proclamation prohibiting markets and fairs on Sundays and holy days in the Duchy of Luxembourg 22 December – City of Antwerp updates regulations on food inspection to prevent the sale of bad herring.
Art and architecture
Anthony van Dyck, Portrait of Nicolas Lanier
Publications Abbrégé des vies, martyres et miracles des vingt-six premiers martyrs au royaume du Jappon (Liège, Christian II Ouwerx) Christophe de Bonours, Le memorable siege d'Ostende (Brussels, Jan van Meerbeeck) Anselmus de Boodt, De baene des hemels ende der deughden (Bruges, Nicolaes Breyghel) Jean Boucher, L'Usure ensevelie ou defence des Monts de Piété de nouveau erigez aux Pais bas pour exterminer l'usure (Tournai, Adrien Quinqué)L'Usure ensevelie on Google Books Joannes Busaeus, Den schadt der meditatien op allen de Evangelien vande Sondaghen ende Heylighe-daghen vanden gheheelen Jaere, translated by Cornelius Thielmans (Antwerp, Willem Lesteens)Busaeus, Schadt der meditatien on Google Books Claude Chifflet, De numismate antiquo liber posthumus (Leuven, Cornelis Coenesteyn) Zeger van Hontsum, Declaratio veridica, quod Begginae nomen (Antwerp, Hieronymus Verdussen) Aubertus Miraeus, Diplomatum Belgicorum libri duo, (Brussels, Jan PepermansDiplomatum Belgicorum on Google Books Pierre Parisot, Linguae Gallicae Institutiones (Leuven, Jean Olivier)Linguae Gallicae Institutiones on Google Books Franciscus Sweertius, Athenae Belgicae (Antwerp, Willem van Tongeren)Athenae Belgicae on Google Books Simon Verepaeus, Een hantboecxken van seer schoone catholijcke ghebeden (Antwerp, Willem Lesteens)Verepaeus, Hantboecxken on Google Books Richard Verstegan, Oorloge ghevochten met die wapenen van die waerheydt en van die reden (Antwerp, Joannes Cnobbaert)Oorloge on Google Books
Periodicals Nieuwe Tijdinghen (Antwerp, Abraham Verhoeven), ongoingArthur der Weduwen, Dutch and Flemish Newspapers of the Seventeenth Century, 1618-1700 (Leiden, 2017), pp. 408-416.
Births
Deaths 12-13 March – John Bull (born 1562/63), composer 12 July – Jean Curtius (born 1551), industrialist
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