1656 in Belgium

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David Teniers the Younger, Triumphal entry of Don John of Austria (c.1657)

Events in the year 1656 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 (until May); John of Austria the Younger (from May)

Prince-Bishopric of Liège

Prince-Bishop – Maximilian Henry of Bavaria

Events

David Teniers the Younger, Battle of Valenciennes

• 13 March – Dunkirkers fight with English ships near Goodwin Sands.
• 2 April – Treaty of Brussels concluded between representatives of Philip IV of Spain and the exiled Charles II of Great Britain
• 11 May – John of Austria the Younger enters Brussels as Governor General.
• 12 July – Battle of Valenciennes

Art and architecture

Bust of Cornelis II Landschot

• Sebastiaen van den Eynde, Bust of Cornelis II Landschot (c. 1656)
• St. James' Church, Antwerp completed

Publications

• Emanuel d'Aranda, Relation de la captivité et liberté du sieur Emanuel de Aranda, mené esclave à Alger en l'an 1640, et mis en liberté l'an 1642 (Brussels, Jan Mommaert the Younger)
• André Tacquet, Arithmeticae theoria et praxis (Leuven)
• Valencenae obsidione liberatae a Ioanne principe Austriaco (Antwerp)

Births

• 21 May – Bernard Bartholomeus Désirant, ecclesiastical writer (died 1725)

Date uncertain

• Lodewijk de Deyster, engraver and instrument maker (died 1711)

Deaths

• 23 January – Jean Du Blocq (born 1583), Jesuit architect
• 22 March – Alexander I of Bournonville (born 1585), noble conspirator