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1638
thumb|Design for a triumphal car celebrating the victory at Kallo, commissioned from Peter Paul Rubens by Antwerp city council
Events in the year 1638 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 – Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria
Prince-Bishopric of Liège
Prince-Bishop – Ferdinand of Bavaria
Events
23 January – Exports of grain prohibited.Placcaertboeck van Vlaanderen 3 part 2 Ghent 1685 932-933 https://books.google.com/books/edition/_/4UdBAAAAcAAJ Google Books
24 May – French forces invest St Omer
20 June – Battle of Kallo
16 July – Siege of Saint-Omer lifted
26 August – Dutch siege of Geldern lifted
16 September – Jesuit College in Brussels stages Conversio S. AugustiniGoran Proot, "Augustine on Stage in the Southern Low Countries", in Augustine beyond the Book, edited by Karla Pollmann and Meredith J. Gill (Leiden and Boston, 2012), p. 114.
Art and architecture
thumb|'t Hoeveke (farmhouse), Evere, built 1638
thumb|Chapel of Saint Roch, Ham-sur-Heure, completed 1638
Buildings
't Hoeveke, Evere.https://monument.heritage.brussels/nl/buildings/25096 Evere: 't Hoeveke, Marnestraat 1-5 2016 Brussels Capital Region Inventaris van het bouwkundig erfgoed
Chapel of Saint Roch, Ham-sur-HeureChapelle Saint-Roch, à Ham-sur-Heure Le territoire en Wallonie https://territoire.wallonie.be/fr/thema/BC_PAT/56086-CLT-0003-01
Paintings
Jacob Jordaens, The King Drinks (1638), now in the Hermitage Museum, St-Petersburg
Peter Paul Rubens, Het Pelsken, now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna
Anthony van Dyck, Triple Portrait of Henrietta Maria, now in the Royal Collection (2 parts) and the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art (1 part)
Anthony van Dyck, Lord John Stuart and his Brother, Lord Bernard Stuart (1638), now in the National Gallery, London
Publications
Relation de tout ce qui s'est passé au siège et prise de Breme (Antwerp, Plantin Press) — an account of the Siege of Breme (1638)https://books.google.com/books/edition/_/d80WAAAAQAAJ Relation Google Books
Honorius Vanden Born (pen name of Erycius Puteanus), Sedigh leven, daghelycks broodt (Leuven, Everaert De Witte) – a collection of epigramsErycius Puteanus Sedigh leven, daghelycks broodt (1639) Hugo Dehennin Ghent Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde 2nd https://dbnl.org/tekst/pute001sede02_01/index.php Digital Library for Dutch Literature
Jean-Jacques Courvoisier, L'Austriche saincte, ou l'Idée du vrai prélat, tirée de la vie parfaite et innocente de S. Maximilian, apôtre et patron de l'Autriche (Brussels, G. Schoevaerts) – a life of Maximilian of LorchJean-Jacques Courvoisier L'Austriche saincte https://books.google.com/books?id=J_sLiD04bKQC Google Books
Pierre Marchant, L'Image du vray chrestien sur le poutrait de la règle du Tiers Ordre de N.B.P.S. François (Ghent, Alexander Sersanders) – a guide to living according to the rule of the Third Order of Saint Francis, dedicated to the memory of Isabella Clara EugeniaGoogle Books https://books.google.com/books/edition/_/qnIzG_KREXQC Pierre Marchant L'Image du vray chrestien
Jean de Wachtendonck, Vita, passio, et miracula S. Rumoldi archiepiscopi Dublinensis, Apostoli Mechliniensis & martyris (Mechelen, Henry Jaye) – a life of Rumbold of Mechlinhttps://books.google.com/books?id=8mqyvAEACAAJ Vita, passio, et miracula S. Rumoldi Jean de Wachtendonck Google Books
Newspapers
Nieuwe Tydinghen uyt verscheyde ghewesten (Bruges, Nicolaes Breyghel)https://ustc.ac.uk/editions/N13 Nieuwe Tydinghen uyt verscheyde ghewesten USTC
Births
6 February – Philips Erard van der Noot, bishop (died 1730)
3 June – Jean-Guillaume Carlier, painter (died 1675)
Date uncertain
Arnold de Jode, engraver
David Teniers III, painter
Deaths
10 March – Cornelis van der Geest (born 1575), merchant
30 April – Guillaume de Steenhuys (born 1558), magistrate
6 May – Cornelius Jansen (born 1585), theologian
22 May – Hendrik van den Bergh (born 1573), nobleman
5 August – Peter Minuit (born 1580/85), governor of New Netherland
1 October – Jan Snellinck (born c. 1548), painter
Date uncertain
Pieter Brueghel the Younger (born 1564), painter
Andreas de Nole (born 1598), sculptor
Jan Roos (born 1591), painter
References
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Category:1630s in the Habsburg Netherlands
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