Events in the year 1629 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 – Isabella Clara Eugenia, Infanta of Spain
Prince-Bishopric of Liège Prince-Bishop – Ferdinand of Bavaria
Events 30 April – Siege of 's-Hertogenbosch begins 14 September – Anthonie Schetz surrenders 's-Hertogenbosch to the Dutch 29 October – Public celebrations ordered for the birth (on 17 October) of Balthasar CharlesChiers et bien amez (Ghent, Anna vanden Steene, 1629)
Art and architecture Anthony van Dyck, The Vision of the Blessed Hermann Joseph
Publications anonymous, De groote evangelische peerle vol devote ghebeden, goddelijke oeffeningen, ende gheestelijcke leeringhen (Antwerp, Joannes Cnobbaert)De groote evangelische peerle on Google Books. Coustumes et usages de la ville, taille, banlieue et eschevinage de Lille (Lille, Christophe Beys)Coustumes et usages de Lille on Google Books Jan van Blitterswyck, Gheestelicke zuchten tot Godt (Bruges, Guilliame de Neve) Virgilio Cepari, Het leven van Ioannes Berchmans, translated by Jacobus Susius (Antwerp, Hendrik Aertssens)Het leven van Ioannes Berchmans on Google Books François-Hyacinthe Choquet, Recueil des vies et actions mémorables des saints personnages ayants vescu dans les Pays-Bas soubs la règle de S. Dominique (Douai, Balthazar Bellerus)Recueil des vies on Google Books J. A. Cools, Gheestelycke herders-dichten, behelsende Brusselsche bee-vaert. Bethlem. Scherpen-heuvel (Brussels, Jan Mommaert)Gheestelycke herders-dichten on Google Books Benedictus van Haeften, Schola cordis (Antwerp, Hieronymus Verdussen) Herman Hugo, Goddelycke wenschen verlicht met sinne-beelden, ghedichten en vierighe uyt-spraecken der oud-vaeders, translated by Justus de Harduwijn (Antwerp, Hendrik Aertssens)Goddelycke wenschen on Google Books Jesuit Fathers, Kort begryp van het ghene dat gheschreven wordt door de patres van de societeyt Jesu, met brieven van den jaere MDCXXVII aengaende de koninckrijcken van Japonien (Antwerp, Hendrik Aertssens)Kort begryp on Google Books Jean de Marnix, Resolutions politiques et maximes d'Estat (Brussels, Jan van Meerbeeck)Resolutions politiques on Google Books Jean Scohier, L'estat et comportement des armes (Brussels, Jan Mommaert)L'estat et comportement des armes on Google Books
Births 22 January – Frans van Horenbeke, bishop of Ghent (died 1679) 1 March – Abraham Teniers, painter (died 1670)
Deaths 23 January – Andreas Schott (born 1552), Jesuit writer 24 June – Carolus Scribani (born 1561), Jesuit writer 11 September – Herman Hugo (born 1588), Jesuit writer 13 October – Petrus Bertius (born 1565), geographer 25 October – Adriaan Stalpaerts (born 1563) abbot of Tongerlo Abbey
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