1719 in Belgium

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List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1719 in the Austrian Netherlands and Prince-bishopric of Liège (predecessor states of modern Belgium).

## Incumbents

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### Habsburg Netherlands

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Monarch – Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, Duke of Brabant, of Luxembourg, etc.

Governor General – Prince Eugene of Savoy

Acting Governor General — Hercule-Louis Turinetti

### Prince-Bishopric of Liège

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Prince-Bishop – Joseph Clemens of Bavaria

## Events

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* 15 January — Pope Clement IX issues the breve Pietatis vestrae in response to a letter from the bishops of the Austrian Netherlands protesting their adherence to the 1713 bull Unigenitus.[1]
* 5 February — The Saint-Joseph sets sail from Ostend for Canton.[2]
* 3 August — The Saint-Joseph from Ostend arrives in Canton.[2]
* 9 September — Frans Anneessens, dean of the masons' guild, condemned to death for resisting innovations in city government detrimental to the power of the guilds of Brussels.[3]
* 19 September — Frans Anneessens beheaded in Brussels.[4]
* 16 October — Bishop Hendrik Jozef van Susteren reopens Bruges seminary (closed in 1632).[1]
* 22 October — Confraternity of St Joseph re-established in Bruges.[5]
* 16 November — Oratorian College, Mechelen, celebrates a former student, Henricus van Gaemeren, graduating from Leuven University as first in his year.[6]
* 27 November — The Saint-Joseph, from Ostend, sets sail from Canton laden with tea, porcelain, silk, and Chinese roots.[2]

## Art and architecture

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A silver monstrance made in Luxembourg in 1719, now in the treasury of the Basilica of Saint Servatius, Maastricht

Art objects

* Silver monstrance (pictured)

Paintings

* Louis Counet, Allégorie de la Religion, Liège town hall

Buildings

* Kasteel De Mot, Ternat
* Lindemansschool, Roosdaal

## Publications

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* Bernaert de Jonghe, Belgium Dominicanum sive historia Provinciæ Germaniæ Inferioris sacri ordinis FF. Prædicatorum (Brussels, Francisci Foppens)[7]

## Births

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* 11 June — François-Charles de Velbrück, prince-bishop of Liège (died 1784)
* 3 December — Jean Charles Joseph de Merode, nobleman (died 1774)

## Deaths

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Portrait of Paul de Bruyn by an unknown artist

* Date unknown — Jan Baptist Brueghel (born 1647), painter
* 6 February — Paul de Bruyn (born 1646), abbot of Park.[8]
* 9 March — Peeter van Bredael (born 1629), painter
* 19 September — Frans Anneessens (born 1660), guildmaster
* 27 October — François Baert (born 1651), Bollandist
* 3 December — Adriaen Frans Boudewijns (born 1644), painter

## References

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1. ^ a b A. C. De Schrevel, "Susteren (Henri-Joseph van)", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 24 (Brussels, 1926-1929), 287-311.
2. ^ a b c J. Mertens, "Oostende – Kanton – Oostende, 1719–1720", in Doorheen de nationale geschiedenis, vol. 1 (State Archives in Belgium, Brussels, 1980), pp. 224–228.
3. ^ "De beul van Brussel", Brussel: Waar is de Tijd, 6 (1999), p. 139.
4. ^ Alphonse Wauters, "Anneessens, François", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 1 (Brussels, 1866), 300–317.
5. ^ Rond den Heerd, vol. 2, number 16 (16 March 1867), p. 123.
6. ^ Verhael der in-haeling van den heere Henricus van Gaemeren eersten van Loven (Antwerp, Joannes Borckx, 1719)
7. ^ Belgium Dominicanum on Google Books.
8. ^ Franciscus Pauwens, Oratio in exequiis Reverendissimi ac Amplissimi Domini D. Pauli de Bruyn Bruxellensis, Celeberrimi & per-antiqui Parchensis Monasterii Ordinis Praemonstratensis Abbatis trigesimi quarti Anno 1719. die 6. februarii defuncti (Brussels, Aegidius Dams, 1719).

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