1628 in Belgium
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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.[1]: 384
- 10 June – Brussels government issues directives for the maintenance of roads, ditches and bridges.[2]: 409
- 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.[2]: 418
- 27 July – City of Antwerp orders public thanksgiving for deliverance from plague[3]
- 31 July – Royal proclamation regulating the size and weight of butter tubs in the County of Flanders[2]: 429
- 3 November – Royal proclamation prohibiting markets and fairs on Sundays and holy days in the Duchy of Luxembourg[2]: 431
- 22 December – City of Antwerp updates regulations on food inspection to prevent the sale of bad herring.[4]
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)[5]
- Christophe de Bonours, Le memorable siege d'Ostende (Brussels, Jan van Meerbeeck)[6]
- Jean Boucher, L'Usure ensevelie ou defence des Monts de Piété de nouveau erigez aux Pais bas pour exterminer l'usure (Tournai, Adrien Quinqué)[7]
- 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)[8]
- Claude Chifflet, De numismate antiquo liber posthumus (Leuven, Cornelis Coenesteyn)[9]
- Zeger van Hontsum, Declaratio veridica, quod Begginae nomen (Antwerp, Hieronymus Verdussen)
- Aubertus Miraeus, Diplomatum Belgicorum libri duo, (Brussels, Jan Pepermans[10]
- Franciscus Sweertius, Athenae Belgicae (Antwerp, Willem van Tongeren)[11]
- Simon Verepaeus, Een hantboecxken van seer schoone catholijcke ghebeden (Antwerp, Willem Lesteens)[12]
- Richard Verstegan, Oorloge ghevochten met die wapenen van die waerheydt en van die reden (Antwerp, Joannes Cnobbaert)[13]
- Periodicals
- Nieuwe Tijdinghen (Antwerp, Abraham Verhoeven), ongoing[14]
Births
Deaths
- 12-13 March – John Bull (born 1562/63), composer
- 12 July – Jean Curtius (born 1551), industrialist
References
- ↑ Alain de Gueldre (ed.), Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987).
- 1 2 3 4 René Vermeir (ed.), Recueil des ordonnances des Pays-Bas. Deuxième Série: Règne de Philippe IV (1621-1665), vol. 1 (Brussels, 2023)
- ↑ "Gheboden ende uyt-gheroepen". 27 July 1628 – via Universal Short Title Catalogue.
- ↑ "Gheboden ende uyt-gheroepen ... Alsoo al-hier van diversche ghebrocht wordt veel slechten harinck vercocht wordt onghekeurt". 22 December 1628 – via Universal Short Title Catalogue.
- ↑ "Abbrégé des vies". Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC).
- ↑ "Le memorable siege d'Ostende". USTC.
- ↑ L'Usure ensevelie on Google Books
- ↑ Busaeus, Schadt der meditatien on Google Books
- ↑ "De numismate". USTC.
- ↑ Diplomatum Belgicorum on Google Books
- ↑ Athenae Belgicae on Google Books
- ↑ Verepaeus, Hantboecxken on Google Books
- ↑ Oorloge on Google Books
- ↑ Arthur der Weduwen, Dutch and Flemish Newspapers of the Seventeenth Century, 1618-1700 (Leiden, 2017), pp. 408-416.
