Events in the year 1643 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 (acting) – Francisco de Melo
Prince-Bishopric of Liège Prince-Bishop – Ferdinand of Bavaria
Events 14 February – Body of Marie de' Medici arrives in Liège on its journey to France 10 March – City of Antwerp issues regulations for teachers of Sunday schools 21 April – Maximilien Villain presides over a diocesan synod of the Diocese of Tournai 18 May – Magistrates of Ypres prohibit the lodging of strangers 19 May – Battle of Rocroi 20 June – Spanish envoy to The Hague presents a proposal for a ceasefire, which the States General rejectAlain de Gueldre, et al., eds., Chronique de la Belgique (RTL, 1987), p. 392. 3 June – Royal proclamation renewing the privileges and exemptions of Bandes d'ordonnanceOrdonnance, déclaration, et édict du Roy nostre Sire sur les Privilèges ex exemptions des Bendes et Compaignies d'Ordonnances (Brussels, Hubert Anthoon Velpius, 1643) 26 August – Brussels Council of Finances issues specifications of coins to be considered legal tender.Ordonnantie op het stuck vande Munte, 26 August 1643, on Google Books 20 December – Ottavio Piccolomini appointed commander in chief of the Army of Flanders
Art and architecture
Buildings Chapel of Our Lady of the Thorn, Heffen, built to house a miraculous image of the Blessed Virgin Mary that had previously been attached to a tree
Paintings
Erasmus Quellinus the Younger, Achilles among the Daughters of Lycomedes (Groeningemuseum)
Publications Valerius Andreas, Bibliotheca Belgica de Belgis vita scriptisq. Claris. Praemissa topographica Belgii totius seu Germaniae inferioris descriptione (Leuven, Jacob Zegers)Bibliotheca Belgica on Google Books Jean Bolland (ed.), Acta Sanctorum, vols. 1 and 2, January (Jan van Meurs) Boetius à Bolswert, Duyfkens en Willemynkens pelgrimagie tot haren beminden binnen Jerusalem (Antwerp, Hendrick Aertssens) Willem van der Borcht, Spieghel der eyghen-kennisse in-gheknoopt het conterfeytsel des wereldts (Brussels, Lambert de Grieck) Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Bernardi doctoris melliflui elimatum ad regulam benedictinam scholion quod inscribitur (Leuven, Everardus de Witte) Jean Jacques Chifflet (ed.), Recueil des traittez de paix, trèves et neutralité entre les couronnes d'Espagne et de France (Antwerp, Plantin Press under Balthasar Moretus) Jean de Chokier de Surlet, Theaurus Politicorum Aphorosmorum repetiae lectionis (Liège, Léonard Streel) Michael Clery, Idiomatis Hibernici Vocabularium (Leuven, Irish College) Georges Galopin, Flandria generosa, seu Compendiosa series genealogiae comitum Flandriae (Mons, heirs of François Waudré)Flandria generosa at Gallica Jacinto de Herrera y Sotomayor, La comedia de la reyna de las flores loa y entremes, que representaron en el palacio de Bruselas, dia de los reyes, de este año de 1643 (Brussels, Jan Mommaert) Hendrik Hondt, Summa juris canonici (Antwerp, Hieronymus II Verdussen) Lucas van Lathem, Historie der miraculeuse kercke van onse L. vrouvwe tot Alsenberghe (Brussels, Guilliam Scheybels) Lucas van Lathem, Histoire de la dévote et miraculeuse église de N. Dame d'Alsemberghe (Brussels) Pierre Marchant, Tribunal sacramentale et visibile Animarum in hac vita mortali (Antwerp, Petrus Bellerus) Francisco Manuel de Mello, De successione Regni Portugalliae dissertatio juridica (Bruges, Nicolaes Breyghel)De successione Regni Portugalliae on Google Books Mathieu de Morgues, Charitable remontrance de Caton chrestien au cardinal de Richelieu (Antwerp) Mathieu de Morgues, Les deux faces de la vie et de la mort de Marie de Medicis royne de France, vefue de Henry IV, mere de Louis XIII, roys tres-chrestiens, discours funebre (Antwerp, Plantin Press) Pierre d'Outreman, Constantinopolis belgica, sive de rebus gestis a Balduino et Henrico Impp. Constantinopolitanis (Tournai, Adrien Quinqué)Constantinopolis belgica on Google Books Matthias Pauli, Sonderlinghen troost der geloovighe zielen (Liège, Léonard Streel) Erycius Puteanus, Politica empresa (Antwerp, Balthasar II Moretus) Heribert Rosweyde, Het leven der H.H. maeghden die van Christus tijden tot dese eeuwe inden salighen staet der suyverheydt inde wereldt gheleeft hebben (Antwerp, widow of Jan Cnobbaert)Het leven der H.H. maeghden on Google Books Stanislaw Sokolowski, Officia propria patronorum regni Poloniae (Antwerp, Plantin Press under Balthasar Moretus) Vincent Stochove, Voyage du sieur de Stochove faict es années 1630. 1631. 1632. 1633 (Brussels, Huybrecht II Anthoon Velpius) Johannes Wamesius, Responsorum sive consiliorum de jure pontificio (Leuven, Jacob Zegers) Godefridus Wendelinus, Luminarcani arcanorum caelestium lampas τετραλυχνος, quatuor obvelata hexametris quatuor anagrammatismis revelata (Brussels, Jan Mommaert the Younger) Johannes Wiggers, In tertiam partem divi Thomæ Aquinatis commentaria Ioannis Wiggers. De verbo incarnato (Leuven, Cornelis Coenesteyn) Olivier de Wree, Genealogiae comitum Flandriae, vol. 2 (Bruges, Jan Baptiste van den Kerchove and Lucas van den Kerchove)Genealogiae comitum Flandriae on Google Books
Newspapers Nieuwe Tydinghen uyt verscheyde ghewesten (Bruges, Nicolaes Breyghel)
Births Date uncertain Laurens van der Meulen, artist (died 1719)
Deaths 23 April (burial) – Adriaan van Meerbeeck (born 1560), chronicler 19 May – Paul-Bernard de Fontaines (born 1566), commander 30 June – Gertruida van Veen (born 1602), painter 18 July – François Duquesnoy (born 1597), sculptor
Date uncertain Maria Faydherbe (born 1587), sculptor Marten Pepijn (born 1575), painter
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