1590s in the Southern Netherlands

none 30px 1590s in Belgium: 30px Other decades 1570s | 1580s | 1590s | 1600s | 1610s Events from the 1590s in the Spanish Netherlands and Prince-bishopric of Liège. Incumbents Habsburg Netherlands Monarch Philip II, King of Spain and Duke of Brabant, of Luxembourg, etc. to September 1598 Isabella Clara Eugenia and Albert VII, Archduke of Austria, as co-sovereigns from September 1598. Governor General Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, to 1592 Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld-Vorderort 1592–1594 Archduke Ernest of Austria 1594–1595 Pedro Henriquez de Acevedo, Count of Fuentes, acting governor general 1595–1596 Albert VII, Archduke of Austria 1596–1598 Margrave Andrew of Burgau, acting governor general 1598–1599 Prince-Bishopric of Liège Prince-Bishop Ernest of Bavaria Events 1590 4 March – Loss of Breda 1591 1592 28 May – Diocesan Seminary of Liège opens 1593 1594 Joyous Entry into Brussels and Antwerp of Archduke Ernest of Austria 1595 7 to 20 March – Siege of Huy 14 October – Loss and retaking of Lier 28 December – Ernest of Bavaria appoints André Streignart, Jean Chapeauville, Pierre Oranus, and Jean Malempeter to an inquisitorial witchcraft tribunal to investigate and judge the case of Jean Delvaux, a monk of Stavelot Abbey who had voluntarily confessed to attending gatherings of witches.Joannes Chapeavillus, Qui gesta Pontificum Tungrensium, Traiectensium, et Leodiensium, vol. 3 (Liège, 1616), pp. 593-605. On Google Books 1596 24 April – Taking of Calais 23 May – Taking of Ardres 1597 24 January – Battle of Turnhout 2 April – Condemnation of Jean Delvaux for witchcraft 1598 2 May – Peace of Vervins concluded 1599 18 April – Marriage of Isabella Clara Eugenia and Albert VII, Archduke of Austria 5 September – Joyous Entry into Brussels of Isabella Clara Eugenia and Albert VII, Archduke of Austria, as co-sovereigns Births 1590 Jacques Backereel Frederik Bouttats the Elder Christophe Butkens Andries van Eertvelt Hubertus Reulandt Daniel Seghers Caesar Joachim Trognaesius Leonard Voeller 1591 Jacques Fouquier Nicolas Régnier Jan Roos (painter) Johannes Chrysostomus vander Sterre Johann von Werth 1592 Balthasar Cordier Balthazar Gerbier Pieter Snayers Jean de Wachtendonck Cornelis de Wael Lucas de Wael 1593 Adriaen de Bie 1594 1595 1596 1597 1598 1599 Deaths 1590 1591 1592 1593 1594 14 June – Orlando di Lasso (born c. 1532), composer 2 December – Gerardus Mercator (born 1512), cartographer 1595 20 February - Archduke Ernest of Austria 26 April – Laevinus Torrentius (born 1525), bishop of Antwerp 1596 4 January - Cristóbal de Mondragón 1597 1598 1599 References Category:1590s in the Holy Roman Empire