Events in the year 1658 in the Spanish Netherlands and Prince-bishopric of Liège (predecessor states of modern Belgium).
Incumbents
Habsburg Netherlands
- Monarch – Philip IV, King of Spain and Duke of Brabant, of Luxembourg, etc.
- Governor General – John of Austria the Younger
Prince-Bishopric of Liège
- Prince-Bishop – Maximilian Henry of Bavaria
Events
- 25 May – Siege of Dunkirk begins
- 14 June – Battle of the Dunes
- 24 June – Fall of Dunkirk
- 28 June to 1 July – Siege of Bergues
Art and architecture
- David Teniers the Younger designs the frontispiece of Theatrum Pictorium (published 1660)
Publications
- Pierre Marchant, Académie, ou exercitations spirituelles sur les trois dévotions principales practiquées en terre par la B.V. Marie, mère de Dieu (Ghent, widow of J. Vanden Kerchove).[1]
- Juan de Palafox y Mendoza, Harders-brief en bekentenissen Van de goddelijcke genade, goetheyt en barmhertigheyt, translated by Lazarus Marcquis (Antwerp, Aernout van Brakel}[2]
Births
- date uncertain — François Gaston Cuvelier, public administrator (died 1743)
Deaths
- 15 January – John Colgan (born c.1592), Irish Franciscan
- 5 April – Jacobus Maestertius (born 1610), jurist
- 23 June – Guillaume de Bette, 1st Marquess of Lede (born c.1600), soldier