1580s in the Southern Netherlands

none 30px 1580s in Belgium: 30px Other decades 1560s | 1570s | 1580s | 1590s | 1600s Events from the 1580s 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. Governor General – Alexander Farnese, Prince (later Duke) of Parma Prince-Bishopric of Liège Prince-Bishop – Gerard van Groesbeeck to December 1580; Ernest of Bavaria from January 1581 Events 1580 3 March – George de Lalaing, Count of Rennenberg, reconciled to Philip II of Spain 9 April – English Fury at Mechelen 7 May – Public disputation on the Eucharist in Brussels 9 June – Taking of Diest by rebel forces 9 August – Unsuccessful rebel assault on Enghien 1581 30 January – Ernest of Bavaria elected as Prince-bishop of Liège 11 February – Ernest of Bavaria elected Prince-abbot of Stavelot 15 June – joyous entry of Ernest of Bavaria in Liège 1 July – Catholic worship prohibited in Antwerp 26 July – Union of Utrecht signs Act of Abjuration, repudiating Philip II of Spain as sovereign of the Netherlands Sack of Breda by forces led by Claude de Berlaymont 30 November – Alexander Farnese takes Tournai 1582 19 February – festive reception of Francis, Duke of Anjou in Antwerp 30 April – Jesuit school opens in Liège 21 December – Gregorian calendar adopted in the Southern Netherlands 1583 17 January – French Fury at Antwerp: failed coup by Francis, Duke of Anjou 16 February – Simon Stevin matriculates at Leiden University 23 May – Ernest of Bavaria, Prince-Bishop of Liège, elected Archbishop-Elector of Cologne 17 June – Battle of Steenbergen (1583) 30 October – Joannes Hauchin consecrated as Archbishop of Mechelen 2 November – Gregorian calendar adopted in Prince-Bishopric of Liège 3 November – Taking of Aalst 30 November – Philips of Marnix, Lord of Saint-Aldegonde, appointed mayor of Antwerp 1584 7 April – End of the Siege of Ypres (1584) 28 May – Bruges surrendered to Alexander Farnese 17 August – Taking of Dendermonde 17 September – Surrender of Ghent 1585 10 March – Surrender of Brussels 10 August – Treaty of Nonsuch: Elizabeth I publicly pledges support to Dutch Revolt 17 August – Fall of Antwerp 3 November – Relics of St Rumbold restored to St Rumbold's Cathedral 1586 18 September – Alexander Farnese becomes Duke of Parma 1587 15 May – Edict, ordonnance et instruction sur l'exercice et l'administration de la jurisdiction et justice militaire 1588 29 May – Jean Vendeville consecrated bishop of Tournai 22 July – William Damasus Lindanus installed as bishop of Ghent 28 July – Battle of Gravelines 1589 Ecclesiastical censorship of the press and the theatre established by Ernest of Bavaria, Prince-Bishop of Liège, Lettres patentes pour la conservation et maintien de la foy et religion chrestienne catholique apostolique romaine es païz de l'evesché et principauté de Liége (printed in Liège by Gautier Morberius) Publications 1580 Le Renart decouvert (Mons, Rutger Velpius) – a satire of William of Orange written anonymously by Jean Richardot 1581 Nicasius Van der Schuere, Een cleyne of corte institutie dat is onderwysinghe der christelijcker religie ghestelt in locos communes (Ghent, Gauthier Manilius) – a Dutch abridgement of Calvin's Institutes (available on Google Books) Jean Michel, L'anatomie du corps politique comparé au corps humain, translated by Paul du Mont (Douai, Jean Bogard), available on Google Books 1583 Justus Lipsius, De Constantia (Antwerp, Plantin Press) Statuta synodi dioecesanae audomarensis, anno M D LXXXIII (Douai, Jean Bogard) – the statutes of the diocesan synod called by Jean Six to introduce Tridentine reform in the diocese of Saint-Omer 1585 Articulen ende conditien vanden tractate aengegaen ende ghesloten tusschen die Prince van Parma ende de stadt van Bruessele (Brussels, Jan Mommaert) – the terms of the surrender of Brussels 1587 Sancho de Londoño, Discurso sobre la forma de reducir la disciplina militar a mejor y antiguo estado (Brussels, Rutger Velpius) William Allen's, The copie of a letter concerning the yeelding up of Daventrie unto his catholike majestie, by sir William Stanley knight (Antwerp, Joachim Trognaesius) – a justification of Sir William Stanley's surrender of Deventer Floris Van der Haer, De initiis tumultuum Belgicorum (Douai, Jean Bogard), the first substantial history of the origins of the Dutch Revolt (available on Google Books) 1588 Jan Franco, Almanach oft journael voor't schrickel- jaer ons Heeren M.D.LXXXVIII (Antwerp, Joachim Trognaesius) – a calendar for the year 1588 Statuta synodalia dioecesis Atrebatensis cum praedecessorum statutis adjectis (Arras, printed by Joachim Trognaesius for Claude de Buyens) – statutes of the diocesan synod of the diocese of Arras William Allen, An admonition to the nobility and people of England and Ireland, intended to be distributed in the event of a successful Spanish landing in England, printed anonymously by Arnout Coninx but never published 1589 Francisco de Valdés, Espeio, y deceplina militar (Brussels, Rutger Velpius) I. B., The copy of a letter lately written by a Spanishe gentleman, to his friend in England in refutation of sundry calumnies, there falsly bruited, and spred emonge the people (Antwerp, Joachim Trognaesius) – counter-propaganda regarding the Spanish Armada Cort verhael vanden aenslach die d'Engelsche hebben aenhevanghen in Spaengien ende Portugael (Antwerp, Joachim Trognaesius) – an account of the English Armada's activities on the coasts of Spain and Portugal Births 1580 12 January - Jan Baptist van Helmont (died 1644), alchemist 6 June - Godefroy Wendelin (died 1667), astronomer 9 June - Daniel Heinsius (died 1655), Dutch poet and humanist 1581 date unknown Frans Francken the Younger (died 1642), painter 1582 11 April - Justus de Harduwijn (died 1636), poet 24 September (baptism) - Deodat del Monte (died 1644), painter, engineer and art dealer date unknown Wouter Abts (died 1642/3), painter Jacob van Hulsdonck (died 1647), painter David Teniers the Elder (died 1649), painter 1583 10 April - Nicolaus Vernulaeus (died 1649), Neo-Latin playwright 11/21 August - Samuel Blommaert (died 1651), director of the Dutch West India Company date unknown Hendrik van der Borcht the Elder (died 1651), engraver and painter Henricus Calenus (died 1653), Jansenist clergyman 1584 12 February - Caspar Barlaeus (died 1648), Dutch humanist 18 November - Gaspar de Crayer (died 1669), painter date unknown Frederick de Marselaer (died 1670), mayor of Brussels and author of a treatise on diplomacy Willem van Nieulandt II (died 1635), painter and playwright Cornelis de Vos (died 1651), painter 1585 25 February - Pieter van den Broecke (died 1640), merchant of the Dutch East India Company 28 April - Philippe d'Outreman (died 1652), Jesuit author 28 October - Cornelius Jansen (died 1638), theologian and bishop of Ypres 31 December - Gonzalo de Córdoba (died 1645), commander in the Army of Flanders date unknown Lorenz van Steenwinckel (died 1619), architect 1586 15 September - Antonius Sanderus (died 1664), ecclesiastical historian date unknown Schelte a Bolswert (died 1659), engraver Gillis II Coignet (died 1641), painter Gijsbrecht Leytens (died 1656), painter Francisco de Moncada, 3rd Marquis of Aitona (died 1635), acting Governor General of the Spanish Netherlands, 1633-1634 David Rijckaert II (died 1642), painter and art dealer 1587 17 January (baptism) - Alexander Adriaenssen (died 1661), painter 20 February - Emanuel Sueyro (died 1629), spymaster and historian 23 April - Gaspard Nemius (died 1667), bishop of Antwerp and archbishop of Cambrai 3 September - Libert Froidmont (died 1653), theologian and scientist 18 October - Philippe-Charles, 3rd Count of Arenberg (died 1640), statesman 17 November - Louis De Geer (died 1652), arms manufacturer 8 December (baptism) - Martin Ryckaert (died 1631), painter date unknown Maria Faydherbe (died 1643), sculptor Antonius de Liedekerke (died 1661), Dutch sea captain and diplomat Adriaen van Nieulandt (died 1658), Dutch painter and engraver Margriet van Noort (died 1646), Carmelite mystic 1588 12 March - Herman de Neyt (died 1642), painter and art dealer 9 May - Herman Hugo (died 1629), Jesuit author date unknown Jean de Beck (died 1648), governor of Luxembourg Jean-Jacques Chifflet (died 1660), physician to the Brussels court, antiquary Benedictus van Haeften (died 1648), Benedictine author Johannes van Mildert (died 1638), sculptor 1589 6 April (baptism) - Jan Tilens (died 1630), painter 2 July (baptism) - Guilielmus Messaus (died 1640), composer 15 July (baptism) - Cornelis Bol (died 1666), painter and etcher 1 August - Alexandrine von Taxis (died 1666), postmistress general date unknown Abraham Govaerts (died 1626), painter Year uncertain Boetius à Bolswert (died 1633), engraver Deaths 1580 1 August - Everard Mercurian (born 1514) 15 September - Geert van Turnhout (born about 1530), composer 26 October - Anna of Austria (born 1549), Queen of Spain, Duchess of Brabant, etc. 23 December - Gerard van Groesbeeck, Prince-Bishop of Liège 1581 19 January - Gillis Hooftman (born 1521), merchant and shipbuilder 22 January - Joos de Damhouder (born 1507), legal scholar 7 May - Alexander Utendal (born 1543/45), composer 13 July - Jean Scheyfve (born about 1515), former Chancellor of Brabant 23 July - George de Lalaing (born about 1550), count of Rennenberg 19 September - Frans Pourbus the Elder (born 1545), painter date unknown Petrus Divaeus (born 1535), historian Willem de Pannemaker (born 1512/14), tapestry designer. Nicholas Sanders (born about 1530), former professor at Louvain, missing presumed dead in Ireland 1582 24 May - Philip de Lalaing (born 1537), governor of Hainaut 11 December - Duke of Alva (born 1507), former Governor of the Netherlands (1567–1573) date unknown Arnoldus Arlenius (born about 1510), humanist Hans Hendrik van Paesschen (born about 1510), architect 1583 1584 10 July - William of Orange (born 1533) assassinated in Delft 1585 10 March - Rembert Dodoens (born 1517), botanist 1586 18 January - Margaret of Parma (born 1522), former Governor of the Netherlands (1559–1567 and 1578–1582) 21 September - Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle (born 1517), former Archbishop of Mechelen (1561–1582) 11 October - Jean Six (born 1533), bishop of Saint-Omer 1587 14 July - Claude de Berlaymont (born ca. 1550), nobleman and commander 19 September - Jacobus Pamelius (born 1536), theologian 1588 17 March - Petrus Dathenus (born about 1531), translator of the Heidelberg Catechism and of metrical psalms into Dutch 2 November - William Damasus Lindanus, Bishop of Ghent 1589 5 January - Joannes Hauchin (born 1527), second Archbishop of Mechelen 22 March - Lodovico Guicciardini (born 1521), Florentine merchant in Antwerp 1 July - Christophe Plantin (born about 1520), printer and bookseller in Antwerp References