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]
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abcJ. 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.
^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).