Events in the year 1651 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 23 January – Leopold William, as Captain-General of the Army of Flanders, prohibits all military governors, commanders or officers from levying any taxes or exactions on their own initiative.René Vermeir, ed., Recueil des ordonnances des Pays-Bas: Règne de Philippe IV (1621-1665), vol. 3 (Brussels, 2023) 3 February – Pierre de Bex, former mayor of Liège, arrested for conspiring against the stateAlain de Gueldre, ed., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987), pp. 396-397. 22 February – Pierre de Bex, former mayor of Liège, executed in Liège 25 February – Amnesty for participants in Bex's insurrection published in LiègeCommission royale pour la publication des anciennes lois et ordonnances de la Belgique, Liste chronologique des édits et ordonnances de la principauté de Liége de 1507 à 1684 (Brussels, 1860) 28 February – Philip IV prohibits the dissemination or defence of the doctrines condemned by Pope Urban VIII in the 1642 bull In eminenti 20 March – Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria lays the foundation stone of the new Capuchin church in Brussels, designed by Fr Charles of Brussels.J.-J. Thonissen, "Arenberg (Le P. Charles D')", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 1 (Brussels, 1866), 401-405. 23 March – Brussels Privy Council issues a proclamation on behalf of Philip IV prohibiting his subjects from contributing to the building of Protestant churches in Dutch territory 27 March – Proclamation in Liège revaluing 16-sou coins at 12 sous and prohibiting foreign copper coins 12 May – City of Antwerp prohibits the auctioning of paintings by those not registered to the Guild of St Luke 26 May – Council of Brabant issues a decree regulating the production, distribution and consumption of aqua vitae in the Duchy of Brabant 17 July – Decree in Liège prohibiting recruitment for foreign armies 22 July – Decree giving foreign soldiers 24 hours to depart the territory of Liège 28 July – Council of Guelders prohibits taking service in foreign armies without permission 23 September – Prohibition on the exportation of grain from the Prince-Bishopric of Liège 8 October – City of Liège prohibits the sending of packets by the riverboat recently established in Maastricht rather than the two merchant boats already established in Liège 12 October – Maximilian Henry of Bavaria installed as Prince-Bishop of Liège 24 November – City of Liège issues regulations on hunting, fishing, and keeping pigeons 22 December – Prohibition in Liège of the making, selling or carrying of pocket-sized firearms or daggers
Art and architecture
Buildings Work begins on a new Capuchin priory and church in Brussels. Work begins on the Thurn and Taxis family chapel in the Church of Our Lady of Victories at the Sablon
Sculptures Jérôme Duquesnoy the Younger, Statue of St Ursula
Publications Abrégé des derniers mouvemens d'Angleterre (Antwerp, Jacobus Moens) Antoine Brun, Recueil du discours, fait par Monsieur de Brun, ambassadeur d'Espagne, a Messieurs les Estats generaux, en la grande assemblee le 28. mars 1651 (Antwerp, J. Husens) Jean-Jacques Chifflet, Judicium de fabula Joannae Papissae (Antwerp, Balthasar II Moretus Albert de Ligne, Prince of Barbançon, L'Amÿ véritable et loyal (Namur, J. Godefrin) (Jesuit College, Ghent), David en Ionathas voorbeelt van oprechte vrientschap (Ghent, Maximiliaan Graet) – programme for a school play performed in September 1651 Pierre Marchant, Chronicon sive commissariorum nationalium nationis germanico-belgicae ordinis S. Francisci origo, institutio, potestas et auctoritas (Ghent, Jan Vanden Kerchove) Albert Rubens, Tabula chronologica regum dynastarum, vrbium rerum, virorumque illustrium a mundo condito ad annum 4000 (Antwerp, Cornelis Woons) Antonius Sanderus, Poemata: ad amplissimum et nobilissimum virum D. Franciscum Kinschotium, Brabantiae cancellarium (Leuven, Jan Vryenborch) Willem van der Borcht, Rosimunda (Brussels, Guilliam Scheybels)
Periodicals Relations veritables, edited by Pierre Hugonet (Brussels, printed by Guillaume Scheybels to be sold by Guillaume Hacquebaud)
Births 21 February – Arnold van Westerhout, artist and printer (died 1725) 29 April (baptism) – Daniël van Vlierden, sculptor (died 1716) 18 August – François Noël, Jesuit missionary (died 1729) 25 August – François Baert, Bollandist (died 1719)
Deaths 6 January (burial) – Jacob Franquart (born 1582/3), artist 14 January – Matthias Pauli (born 1580) Augustinian author 14 February – Lambertine de Ligne (born 1593), noblewoman 18 March – Gerard Seghers (born 1591), painter and art dealer 5 May – Frans I van Kinschot (born 1577), Chancellor of Brabant 9 May – Cornelis de Vos (born 1584), painter 30 May – Henri de Vicq, Lord of Meuleveldt (born 1573), diplomat and jurist 15 July – Engelbert Des Bois (born 1578), bishop of Namur 26 July – Hendrik van der Borcht the Elder (born 1583), engraver 8 September – Jacquemijntje Garniers (born ), midwife and painter 22 December – William Hyde (born 1597), priest and educator
Date uncertain Jan van den Hoecke, artist (born 1611)
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