Events in the year 1655 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
Prince-Bishopric of Liège Prince-Bishop – Maximilian Henry of Bavaria
Events 19 June to 13 July – Siege of LandreciesAlain de Gueldre (ed.), Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987). September – Diplomatic relations with the Commonwealth of England broken off 31 October – Jurisdiction over Herstal transferred from Philip IV to the Prince-Bishopric of Liège
Art and architecture
Jacob Jordaens, St Charles Borromeo interceding for victims of plague, in St. Charles Borromeo Church, Antwerp
Publications (Augustinian College, Ghent), De heylighe vyf wonden ons saligh-makers Iesv Christi (Ghent, Maximiliaan Graet) — a school play performed in September 1655. Aegidius Bucherius, Belgium Romanum ecclesiasticum et civile (Liège, Henri and Jean-Matthieu Hoven)Belgium Romanum at Internet Archive Jean-Jacques Chifflet, Anastasis Childerici I. Francorum Regis, Sive Thesaurus Sepulchralis Tornaci Nerviorum effossus, et Commentario illustratus (Antwerp, Plantin Press)Anastasis on Google Books Adriaan Poirters, Het pelgrimken van Kevelaer, Inhoudende de litanien, hymni, liedekens, herders-dichtjens, en reysgebeden voor de processie van Kevelaer (Roermond)Het pelgrimken van Kevelaer at Digital Library for Dutch Literature Charles de Visch, Vita Reverendi in Christo Patris ac Domini, D. Adriani Cancellier, monasterii Dunensis, Ordinis Cisterciensis, quondam Abbatis (Bruges, Nicolaes Breyghel)
Births 25 April (baptism) – Pieter Rijsbraeck, artist (died 1729)
Date uncertain
Deaths 29 March – Valerius Andreas (born 1588), scholar 30 March – Joannes Couchet (born 1615), harpsichord maker 29 April – Cornelis Schut (born 1597), painter 30 June – Jacobus Boonen (born 1573), clergyman 10 August – Lodewijk de Vadder (born 1605), artist 27 September – Nicolaas Rubens, Lord of Rameyen (born 1618)
Date uncertain Hendrick Andriessen (born 1607), painter Jacques Fouquier (born c.1590/91), painter
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