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

Incumbents

Habsburg Netherlands

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

Prince-Bishop – Joseph Clemens of Bavaria

Events

• 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.
• 5 February — The Saint-Joseph sets sail from Ostend for Canton.
• 3 August — The Saint-Joseph from Ostend arrives in Canton.
• 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.
• 19 September — Frans Anneessens beheaded in Brussels.
• 16 October — Bishop Hendrik Jozef van Susteren reopens Bruges seminary (closed in 1632).
• 22 October — Confraternity of St Joseph re-established in Bruges.
• 16 November — Oratorian College, Mechelen, celebrates a former student, Henricus van Gaemeren, graduating from Leuven University as first in his year.
• 27 November — The Saint-Joseph, from Ostend, sets sail from Canton laden with tea, porcelain, silk, and Chinese roots.

Art and architecture

Art objects

• Silver monstrance (pictured)

Paintings

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

Buildings

• Kasteel De Mot, Ternat
• Lindemansschool, Roosdaal

Publications

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

Births

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

Deaths

• Date unknown — Jan Baptist Brueghel (born 1647), painter
• 6 February — Paul de Bruyn (born 1646), abbot of Park.
• 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

1. ^ A. C. De Schrevel, "Susteren (Henri-Joseph van)", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 24 (Brussels, 1926-1929), 287-311.
2. ^ 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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