Events in the year 1658 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 – John of Austria the Younger

Prince-Bishopric of Liège Prince-Bishop – Maximilian Henry of Bavaria

Events

25 May – Siege of Dunkirk begins 14 June – Battle of the Dunes 24 June – Fall of Dunkirk 28 June to 1 July – Siege of Bergues 7 November – Henry Taylor becomes Dean of Antwerp Cathedral

Art and architecture

David Teniers the Younger designs the frontispiece of Theatrum Pictorium (published 1660) Baroque Altar of Our Lady in the Church of Our Lady of the Chapel in Brussels.

Publications Nicolaus Breydel, Breviarium ofte Kort Begryp van het Leven vande H. Maghet en Martelaresse Barbara, besonder Patronesse vande Biechte, mitsgaders teghen de Peste ende onvoorsienighe doot (Ghent, Maximiliaan Graet) Pierre Marchant, Académie, ou exercitations spirituelles sur les trois dévotions principales practiquées en terre par la B.V. Marie, mère de Dieu (Ghent, widow of J. Vanden Kerchove). James Mumford, The Question of Questions, which rightly solved resolveth all our Questions in Religion (Ghent, Maximiliaan Graet) Juan de Palafox y Mendoza, Harders-brief en bekentenissen Van de goddelijcke genade, goetheyt en barmhertigheyt, translated by Lazarus Marcquis (Antwerp, Aernout van Brakel} Arnout Van Geluwe, Beghonnen Proces ofte Reden-Kamp-Stryt, tusschen Arnout Van Geluwe Vlaemschen Boer ende Joannes Maelgie, Ghereformeerden Predicant (Ghent, Maximiliaan Graet) Arnout Van Geluwe, Reden-Kamp-Stryt Tvsschen Eenen Vlaemschen Arendt ende een Hollandtsche Rave (Ghent, Maximiliaan Graet)

Births 11 June – Victor Honoré Janssens, painter (died 1736) date uncertain — François Gaston Cuvelier, public administrator (died 1743)

Deaths 15 January – John Colgan (born c.1592), Irish Franciscan 5 April – Jacobus Maestertius (born 1610), jurist 23 June – Guillaume de Bette, 1st Marquess of Lede (born c.1600), soldier

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