1653 in Belgium

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Golden bees from the tomb of Childeric I, excavated in 1653

Farmhouse in Destelbergen with gable dated 1653

Events in the year 1653 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

• 24 January – Prohibition on recruitment for foreign armies in Liège
• February – Prince of Condé invades the neutral Prince-Bishopric of Liège in support of Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine, sacking Couvin and Ciney
• 27 May – Discovery of the tomb of Childeric I near Tournai
• 31 May – Pope Innocent X's bull Cum occasione published in the Spanish Netherlands
• 4 July – Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria prohibits soldiers from lodging with family instead of in their assigned quarters
• 7 July – Council of Guelders prohibits gypsies and vagrants from congregating around the pilgrimage site Kevelaer
• 11 August – Brussels Privy Council prohibits the exportation of grain to territory not under the control of friendly or neutral states
• 23 August – Brussels Privy Council permits the limited importation of English textiles through the ports of the County of Flanders for a period of four years
• 1 October – Orders in Liège to raise 500 cavalry and 1,000 infantry to guarantee the territory's neutrality
• 17 November – Departure times for the boat service between Liège and Huy published
• 17 December – Unlicensed exportation of arms, gunpowder, or other munitions of war from the city of Liège prohibited
• 23 December – Charles de Hovyne replaces Pieter Roose as president of the Brussels Privy Council

Art and architecture

Pieter Neefs the Younger, Interior of Antwerp Cathedral (1653), now in Temple Newsam

Paintings

• Jacob Jordaens, The Banquet of Cleopatra
• Pieter Neefs the Younger, Interior of Antwerp Cathedral
• David Teniers the Younger, Gallery of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in Brussels

Buildings

• Farmhouse in Destelbergen, now listed built heritage
• Tower of the Church of Our Lady, Alsemberg burns down

Publications

• Jean Jacques Chifflet, Pulvis febrifugus orbis Americani
• Claude de Grieck, Liefde zonder zien verwekt, bly-spel (Brussels, Claudius de Grieck)
• Albertus Ignatius d'Hanins, Het bevel van Cupido (Brussels, Guillaume Scheybels)
• Libertus Fromondus, Brevis commentarius in Canticum canticorum (Leuven, Hieronymus Nempaeus)
• Jesuit College, Ghent, Tragedie Jephte, rechter des Volckx Israel (Ghent, Maximiliaan Graet)
• Pierre Marchant, Expositio mystico-litteralis SSmi. Incruenti sacrificii missae (Ghent, Alexander Sersanders)
• (Nuns of Oosteeklo Abbey), Institution de la Confrérie du méliflue docteur S. Bernard, signale favori de la Vierge-Mère, en l'abbaye d'Oost-Eecloo l'an M.DC.LIII (Ghent, Maximiliaan Graet)
• Livinus Vaentkens, Sancti Bernardi doctoris melliflui vitae medulla quinquaginta quatuor iconibus representata (Antwerp, Willem Lesteens and Engelbert Gymnicus)
• Michael van Langren, Description particuliere du grand changement que la sable ou banc de Mardyck a fait depuis l'an 1624 jusques au temps present 1653 (Brussels, François Schovardts)

Periodicals

• Relations veritables, edited by Pierre Hugonet (Brussels, printed by Guillaume Scheybels to be sold by Guillaume Hacquebaud)

Births

• 28 January (baptism) – Joannes Chrysostomus Teniers, abbot (died 1709)
• 26 April – Jan Vaerman, mathematician (died 1731)

Date uncertain

• Artus Quellinus III, sculotor (died 1686)

Deaths

• 1 February – Henricus Calenus (born 1583), clergyman
• 12 June – Ernestine of Arenberg (born 1589), noblewoman
• 4 September – Sidronius Hosschius (born 1596), Jesuit poet
• 16 October – Jan Wildens (born 1586), painter
• 19 October – Michel Routart (born c.1580), government official
• 28 October – Libert Froidmont (born 1587), theologian and scientist

Date uncertain

• Jan Dirven (born 1625), painter
• Antoon Faydherbe (active from 1598), sculptor
• Gillis Peeters the Elder (born 1612), painter
• Jan van Belcamp (born 1610), painter