1601 in Belgium
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Events in the year 1601 in the Spanish Netherlands and Prince-bishopric of Liège (predecessor states of modern Belgium).
Incumbents
Habsburg Netherlands
Prince-Bishopric of Liège
- Prince-Bishop – Ernest of Bavaria
Events
- Mark de Cooman and Frank van der Planken establish a tapestry manufactory in Oudenaarde.[1]
- January
- 16 January – New regulations for trading on the Antwerp Exchange decreed.[2]
- March
- 20 March – New regulations on distilleries for brandy and aqua vitae decreed.[3]
- April
- June
- 12 June – Maurice of Nassau lays siege to Rheinberg.[1]
- July
- 4 July – Archduke Albert applies to the States of Flanders, in session in Bruges, for a "half hundredth penny" (a tax of 0.5%) to finance the Siege of Ostend. [5]: 82
- 5 July – Siege of Ostend begins.
- 10 July – Archduke Albert personally leads an assault on the defences of Ostend.[5]: 83
- 15 July – Sir Francis Vere arrives in Ostend with reinforcements.[5]: 83
- August
- 16 August – High tides at Ostend flood trenches.[5]: 86
- November
- 2 November – Maurice of Nassau lays siege to 's-Hertogenbosch.[1]
- 22 November – Maurice of Nassau abandons the siege of 's-Hertogenbosch.[1]
Publications
- Verhael van een tsamen-sprekinge, gehouden tusschen een courtisan oft hovelinck ende een borgere, nopende den tegenwoordighen staet van Nederlant (Leuven, Joannes Masius)[6]
- Etienne Du Tronchet, Lettres missives et familières, avec le monologue de la Providence Divine au peuple français (Douai, Jean Bogard)
- Franciscus Costerus, Catholijcke sermoonen, op de evangelien der sondaghen vanden advent to den vasten (Antwerp, no address)
- Henricus van Cuyck, Speculum concubinariorum (Leuven, Joannes Masius)
- Justus Lipsius, Epistolarum selectarum centuria singularis ad Italos & Hispanos (Antwerp, Plantin Press)
- Justus Lipsius, Epistolarum selectarum III. centuriae (Antwerp, Plantin Press)
- Nicolas de Montmorency, Spiritualis dulcedo quatuor libris (Leuven, Gerard Rivius)
- Antonio Ortiz, A relation of the solemnetie wherewith the Catholike princes K. Phillip the III. and Quene Margaret were receyued in the Inglish Colledge of Valladolid the 22. of August, 1600, translated by Francis Rivers (Antwerp, Arnout Coninx)
- Andres de Soto, Contemplacion del crucifixo, y consideraciones de Christo crucificado (Antwerp, Plantin Press)[7]
Births
- 13 September – Jan Brueghel the Younger, painter (died 1678)
- date uncertain
- Nicolas de Liemaker, painter (died 1646)
- Frans Ykens, painter (died 1693)
Deaths
- 10 May – Hans van Steenwinckel the Elder (born c. 1550), architect
- 24 July – Joris Hoefnagel (born 1542), printmaker
- date uncertain
- Jacobus Typotius (born 1540), humanist
References
- ^ a b c d Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987), p. 370.
- ^ Placcaet van haere hoocheden, aengaende hoe de coopluyden, ende alle andere van wat qualiteyt sy moghen wesen, hen sullen moeten reguleren op de borsse, ter borsse tijdt (Antwerp, Plantin Press, 1601). On Google Books
- ^ Ordonnantie ende placcaet vande Eertzhertoghen tegen d'abuysen dier geschieden in sommige plaetsen, ende landen hervvertsouer, deur de[n] ommatigen dra[n]ck ende slete vande ghebrande-vvynen, andersins geheete[n] leuende-vvateren, ende ander gelycke distillatien (Brussels, Rutger Velpius, 1601). On Google Books
- ^ Placcaert ende ordinantie vande eertshertoghen waermede van wegen heure Hoocheden wordt verboden alle het vervueren wtte landen van herweertsouere van Salpeteren ende Buspoyeren, ende daer beneffens gestelt ordre opt suecken, maken, ende handeling (Brussels, Rutger Velpius, 1601) On Google Books
- ^ a b c d Werner Thomas, "Het beleg van Ooostende", in De val van het Nieuwe Troje: Het beleg van Oostende, 1601-1604, ed. Werner Thomas (Ostend and Leuven, 2004).
- ^ Available on Google Books
- ^ Available on Google Books