1637 in Belgium

Events

• 16 April – Assassination of Sébastien de La Ruelle, former mayor of Liège, triggers anti-Spanish rioting.

• 21 July – Dutch forces besiege Breda.
• 26 July – French forces commanded by Cardinal de La Valette take Landrecies.

• 7 August – Merchants of London formally protest seizure of English tobacco shipments to Holland.
• 25 August – Venlo retaken.

• 3 September – Roermond retaken.

• 7 October – Breda lost.

Publications

• Erycius Puteanus, De Bissexto, .
• Arnold de la Porte, Compendio de la lengua española. Institutie vande Spaensche tale, dedicated to Johannes Chrysostomus vander Sterre.

Works of art

• Peter Paul Rubens – The Origin of the Milky Way, now in the Museo del Prado, Madrid

Births

• 27 June – Alexander Voet the Younger, print maker

• 14 September – Renier Meganck, painter

Deaths

• 12 March – Cornelius a Lapide, Jesuit exegete

• 16 April – Sébastien de La Ruelle, mayor of Liège
• 17 April – René de Renesse, 1st Count of Warfusée, conspirator

• 6 June – Pieter Huyssens, Jesuit architect

• 12 July – Willem van Haecht, painter

• 14 September
• * Joannes Cnobbaert, bookseller and printmaker
• * Theodoor Rombouts, painter

• 4 November – Michael Ophovius, bishop of 's-Hertogenbosch
• 23 November – Carlos Coloma, former commander in the Army of Flanders