1636 in Belgium

Events

• 29 April – Dutch forces retake Schenkenschans.

• 2 July – Army of Flanders goes onto the offensive in the Franco-Spanish War (1635–59), invading French territory.
• 17 July – People of Liège appeal to Pope Urban VIII against imperial troops called in by prince-bishop Ferdinand.

• 5 August – Crossing of the Somme by the Army of Flanders.
• 7 August – Corbie invested.
• 15 August – Corbie taken.

• 14 November – French forces retake Corbie.

Publications

• Lazarus Marcquis, Volcomen tractaet van de peste – a treatise on the pestilence.

Works of art

• Anthony van Dyck – Charles I in Three Positions, now in the Royal Collection.
• Peter Paul Rubens
• * Hercules' Dog Discovers Purple Dye, now in the Musée Bonnat, Bayonne.
• * Helena Fourment with Children, now in the Louvre Museum, Paris.
• * Saturn, now in the Museo del Prado, Madrid.
• * The Rainbow Landscape, now in the Wallace Collection, London.
• * A View of Het Steen in the Early Morning, now in the National Gallery, London.

Births

• 12 January – Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, painter

• 22 June – Albertus Clouwet, engraver

Deaths

• Philippe de Caverel, abbot
• Matthijs Langhedul, organ builder
• Joannes Woverius, councillor

• 19 January – Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, painter

• 21 June – Justus de Harduwijn, poet