Events in the year 1649 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 – Ferdinand of Bavaria

Events 31 May – Leopold Wilhelm lays the foundation stone of a new Lady Chapel in Brussels MinsterAlain de Gueldre (ed.), Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987). 30 August – Liège surrenders to Bavarian troops 24 September – Ferdinand of Bavaria makes his triumphal entry into Liège

Art and architecture Buildings

St Elizabeth House, residence of the mistress of the Kortrijk Beguinage

Publications L'execution et la mort du roy d'Angleterre faite publiquement le 9. febr. 1649 à Londres en Angleterre, avec ce que le roy a dit sur l'eschaffaut (Antwerp, Martin Binnart). Libertus Fromondus, Responsum rythmicum refutans cuiusdam molinistae epistolam ad aliquot (ut contumeliosè fingit) illuminatos Lovanienses (published anonymously) Adriaan Poirters, Het masker vande wereldt afgetrocken (Antwerp, widow of Jan Cnobbaert and heirs of Jan Cnobbaert)

Periodicals Den Ordinarissen Postilioen (Antwerp, Martin Binnart) Le Postillon ordinaire (Antwerp, Martin Binnart) Courrier véritable des Pays-Bas, edited by Pierre Hugonet (Brussels, printed by Jan Mommaert the Younger)

Births 25 February (baptised) – Franciscus Gijsbrechts, painter (died after 1677) 15 August (baptised) – Godfried Maes, painter (died 1700)

Date uncertain Gualterus Gysaerts, painter (died in or after 1677) Emmanuel Schelstrate, theologian (died 1692) Jan Carel van Eyck, painter (year of death uncertain)

Deaths 6 January – Nicolaus Vernulaeus (born 1583), humanist February – Theodoor van Loon (born 1581/82), painter 2 September – Abraham Matthijs (born 1581), painter 17 October – Lodewijck Neeffs (born 1617), painter 24 November – Ferdinand de Boisschot (born 1570), jurist

Date uncertain Jan Baptist Barbé (born 1578), engraver

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