1601 in Belgium
Events in the year 1601 in the Spanish Netherlands and Prince-bishopric of Liège.
Events
- Mark de Cooman and Frank van der Planken establish a tapestry manufactory in Oudenaarde.
- 3 January – States of Brabant agree an exceptional additional subsidy of 60,000 Brabant guilders for one year, to be levied as a sales tax from wine merchants, brewers, butchers and bakers, and to be used to pay troops garrisoned in Brabant.
- 16 January – New regulations for trading on the Stock Exchange in Antwerp decreed.
- 20 March – New regulations on distilleries for brandy and aqua vitae decreed.
;May
- 21 May – As Duke and Duchess of Luxembourg, the Archdukes Albert and Isabella conclude an agreement with Ernest of Bavaria, Prince-Bishop of Liège, concerning their rights of patronage over the Princely Abbey of Stavelot-Malmedy.
;July
- 4 July – Archduke Albert applies to the States of Flanders, in session in Bruges, for a "half hundredth penny" to finance the Siege of Ostend.
- 5 July – Siege of Ostend begins.
- 10 July – Archduke Albert personally leads an assault on the defences of Ostend.
- 15 July – Sir Francis Vere arrives in Ostend with reinforcements.
- 16 August – High tides at Ostend flood trenches.
- 2 November – Maurice of Nassau lays siege to 's-Hertogenbosch.
- 22 November – Maurice of Nassau abandons the siege of 's-Hertogenbosch.
Publications
Verhael van een tsamen-sprekinge, gehouden tusschen een courtisan oft hovelinck ende een borgere, nopende den tegenwoordighen staet van Nederlant- Etienne Du Tronchet, Lettres missives et familières, avec le monologue de la Providence Divine au peuple français
- Franciscus Costerus, Catholijcke sermoonen, op de evangelien der sondaghen vanden advent to den vasten
- Henricus van Cuyck, Speculum concubinariorum
- Justus Lipsius, Epistolarum selectarum centuria singularis ad Italos & Hispanos
- Justus Lipsius, Epistolarum selectarum III. centuriae
- Nicolas de Montmorency, Spiritualis dulcedo quatuor libris
- 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
- Andres de Soto, ''Contemplacion del crucifixo, y consideraciones de Christo crucificado''
Births
- 13 September – Jan Brueghel the Younger, painter
- Nicolas de Liemaker, painter
- Frans Ykens, painter
Deaths
- 10 May – Hans van Steenwinckel the Elder, architect
- 24 July – Joris Hoefnagel, printmaker
- Jacobus Typotius, humanist