Events in the year 1659 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 – John of Austria the Younger (until November); Luis de Benavides Carrillo, Marquis of Caracena (from November)
Prince-Bishopric of Liège Prince-Bishop – Maximilian Henry of Bavaria
Events 27 October – Magistrates in Antwerp order the removal of chains from the streets after guild protests against the monopoly of the royal postmasterAlain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987), p. 400. 7 November – Treaty of the Pyrenees signed, ending Franco-Spanish War (1635–1659)
Art and architecture
Paintings Jacob van Reesbroeck, Portrait of Balthasar II Moretus
Publications
Het Brussels Moeselken (Brussels, Gielis Stryckwant) Nicolás Antonio, De exilio sive De exilii poena antiqua et nova libri tres (Antwerp, Jacob Meurs) P. de Cambry, Abbregé de la vie de dame Jenne de Cambry, premierement religieuse de l'ordre de S. Augustin à Tournay, & depuis soeur Ienne Marie de la Presentation recluse lez Lille (Antwerp, Jacques Mesens) — a biography of Jeanne de Cambry Jean-Jacques Chifflet, Antiqua Rerum Brabanticarum et Belgicarum Monumenta (Antwerp, Plantin Press) Laurent Chifflet, Essay d'une parfaite grammaire de la langue françoise (Antwerp, Jacob Meurs) Antonius Sanderus, Chorographia sacra Brabantiae, part 1 René-François de Sluse, Mesolabum. André Tacquet, Cylindricorum et annularium liber V (Antwerp, Jacob Meurs) Arnout Van Geluwe, Claer Bewys Dat Christus hier op der aerden geen duysent-jaerigh Rijcke en sal comen op-rechten, om met de Martelaeren inden vleessche duysent Iaeren te regneren, als Coningen ende Priesters, ghelijck de nieuwe Duysent-jaers-ghesinde Propheten, ofte genaemde wel-meenende Christenen van Amsterdam droomen (Ghent, Maximiliaan Graet) Michael van Langren, Briefve description de la ville et havre d'Oostende (Brussels, Philippe Vleugart
Newspapers Relations veritables, edited by Pierre Hugonet (Brussels, printed by Guillaume Scheybels to be sold by Guillaume Hacquebaud)
Births date unknown – John Baptist Medina, painter (died 1710) Catarina Ykens, painter (died )
Deaths 30 March – Andries de Coninck (born ), painter 8 August – Filippo Spinola, 2nd Marquis of Los Balbases (born 1594), nobleman 24 October – Philippe Brasseur (born 1597), poet and historian 12 December – Guillaume de Lamboy, Baron of Cortesheim (born 1590), soldier 22 December (burial) – Schelte a Bolswert (born ), engraver date unknown – Frans Wouters (born 1612), painter
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