Events in the year 1652 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 – Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria
Prince-Bishopric of Liège Prince-Bishop – Maximilian Henry of Bavaria
Events 10 January – Proclamation in Liège banishing brigands, vagabonds and beggars from the territoryCommission royale pour la publication des anciennes lois et ordonnances de la Belgique, Liste chronologique des édits et ordonnances de la principauté de Liége de 1507 à 1684 (Brussels, 1860) 20 February – Brussels Privy Council issues a general regulation on coinage, listing the coins to be accepted as legal tender.René Vermeir, ed., Recueil des ordonnances des Pays-Bas: Règne de Philippe IV (1621-1665), vol. 3 (Brussels, 2023) 17 April – Brussels Council of Finances relaxes restrictions on the importation of English cloth, but limiting imports to Ostend. 14 July – Jacobus de la Torre consecrates the new Capuchin church in Brussels, designed by Fr Charles of Brussels.J.-J. Thonissen, "Arenberg (Le P. Charles D')", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 1 (Brussels, 1866), 401-405. 16 September – Army of Flanders recaptures Dunkirk, occupied by the French in 1646Alain de Gueldre, ed., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987), p. 397. 10 December – Decree in Liège ordering owners of mills, forges and furnaces along the river Ourthe to remove all obstacles to navigation on the river.
Art and architecture
Buildings House in Diest beguinage dated 1652
Paintings Jacob Jordaens, The Holy Family in a Boat Katharina Pepijn, Portrait of Johannes Chrysostomus vander Sterre, Abbot of St. Michael's Abbey, Antwerp David Teniers the Younger, Flemish Kermess Jan van den Hecke, Still Life of Parrot Tulips, Roses, Carnations, Morning Glory and Other Flowers in a Silver Dish on a Stone Pedestal Theodoor van Thulden, Harmony and Marriage
Publications Edward Knott, Infidelity Unmasked, or The Confutation of a Booke, Published by M. William Chillingworth, under this Title: The Religion of Protestants a Safe Way to Salvation''' (Ghent, Maximiliaan Graet) Petrus Stockmans, Jus Belgarum circa bullarum pontificarum receptionem (published anonymously)Jus Belgarum on Google Bookes
Periodicals Relations veritables, edited by Pierre Hugonet (Brussels, printed by Guillaume Scheybels to be sold by Guillaume Hacquebaud)
Births 20 November (bapt.) – Marie Duchatel, painter (died 1692)
Deaths 25 July – Bonaventura Peeters the Elder (born 1614), painter 13 October – Abraham Verhoeven (born 1575), publisher of the Nieuwe Tijdinghen'' 1 November (bur.) – Pieter van Avont (born 1600), painter
Date uncertain Andries van Eertvelt (born 1590), painter
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