1719 in Belgium

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Incumbents

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-Bishop – Joseph Clemens of Bavaria

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]

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

^ ^a ^b A. C. De Schrevel, "Susteren (Henri-Joseph van)", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 24 (Brussels, 1926-1929), 287-311.
^ ^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.
^ "De beul van Brussel", Brussel: Waar is de Tijd, 6 (1999), p. 139.
^ Alphonse Wauters, "Anneessens, François", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 1 (Brussels, 1866), 300–317.
^ Rond den Heerd, vol. 2, number 16 (16 March 1867), p. 123.
^ Verhael der in-haeling van den heere Henricus van Gaemeren eersten van Loven (Antwerp, Joannes Borckx, 1719)
^ Belgium Dominicanum on Google Books.
^ 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).