1639

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Centuries:	16th century - 17th century - 18th century
Decades:	1600s  1610s  1620s  - 1630s -  1640s  1650s  1660s
Years:	1636 1637 1638 - 1639 - 1640 1641 1642

1639 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology - Architecture -

Art - Literature - Music - Science

Leaders:   State leaders - Colonial governors

Category: Establishments - Disestablishments

Births - Deaths - Works v • d • e

Year 1639 (MDCXXXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1639 1.1 January - June 1.2 July - December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 References

[edit] Events of 1639

[edit] January - June

• January 14 - Connecticut's first constitution, the "Fundamental Orders," is adopted.
• January 23 - Francisco Maldonado de Silva, Peruvian Jewish poet, executed by burning at the stake.
• March 3 - The early settlement of Taunton, Massachusetts was incorporated as a town.
• March 13 - Harvard University is named for a clergyman named John Harvard.
• May - Outbreak of the first of the Bishops' Wars between Charles I and Scotland. Charles arrives with his army at Berwick-on-Tweed.
• June - The first battle of the Bishops' Wars is fought by Earl Marischal and the Marquess of Montrose when they lead a Covenanter army of 9000 men past Muchalls Castle over the Causey Mounth to fight at the Bridge of Dee.
• June 18 - The Treaty of Berwick is signed by Charles I and the Scots.

[edit] July - December

• October 31 - Naval Battle of the Downs - Republic of the United Provinces fleet decisevely defeats a Spanish fleet in English waters.
• November 24 - Jeremiah Horrocks observes the transit of Venus.

[edit] Undated

• Fort St George, the first settlement of British India, is founded at Madras. ^[1]
• The Casiquiare canal, a river forming a natural canal between the Amazon River and Orinoco River basins, is first encountered by Europeans.
• The Barbados House of Assembly meets for the first time.
• The first printing press in North America is started in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• Russian Cossacks advance over Urals to Pacific, to Okhotsk.
• Montreal first settled.
• Sakoku "closed country policy" starts in Japan (approximate date).

[edit] Births

1639 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1639 MDCXXXIX
Ab urbe condita	2392
Armenian calendar	1088 ԹՎ ՌՁԸ
Bahá'í calendar	-205 – -204
Berber calendar	2589
Buddhist calendar	2183
Burmese calendar	1001
Chinese calendar	4275/4335-11-28 (戊寅年十一月廿八日) — to — 4276/4336-12-8 (己卯年十二月初八日)
Coptic calendar	1355 – 1356
Ethiopian calendar	1631 – 1632
Hebrew calendar	5399 – 5400
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1694 – 1695
- Shaka Samvat	1561 – 1562
- Kali Yuga	4740 – 4741
Holocene calendar	11639
Iranian calendar	1017 – 1018
Islamic calendar	1048 – 1049
Japanese calendar	Kan'ei 16 (寛永16年)
Korean calendar	3972
Thai solar calendar	2182
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• February 6 - Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (d. 1691)
• March 7 - Charles Stewart, 3rd Duke of Richmond (d. 1672)
• May 8 - Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Il Baciccio), Italian painter of High Baroque.
• June 21 - Increase Mather, American minister (d. 1723)
• September 17 - Hans Herr, Swiss-born Mennonite bishop (d. 1725)
• September 29 - Lord William Russell, English politician (d. 1683)
• December 22 - Jean Racine, French dramatist (d. 1699)
• date unknown
  • Yair Bacharach, German rabbi (d. 1702)
  • Caspar Netscher, painter (d. 1684)

See also Category:1639 births.

[edit] Deaths

• January 20 - Mustafa I, Ottoman Sultan (born 1592)
• January 24 - Georg Jenatsch, Swiss politician (born 1596)
• May 21 - Tommaso Campanella, Italian theologian and poet (born 1568)
• June 1 - Melchior Franck, German composer (born c.1579)
• July 18 - Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, German general (born 1604)
• August 4 - Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Mexican dramatist (born c1571)
• August 20 - Martin Opitz von Boberfeld, German poet (born 1597)
• September 20 - Johannes Meursius, Dutch classical scholar (born 1579)
• October 28 - Stefano Landi, Italian composer (born 1587)
• November 7 - Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour, English politician (born c.1560)
• November 26 - John Spottiswoode, Scottish historian (born 1565)

See also Category:1639 deaths.

[edit] References

1. ^ Roberts, J: "History of the World.". Penguin, 1994.