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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).

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Events of 1639

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

References

Events of 1639

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.

July - December

★ November 24 - Jeremiah Horrocks observes the transit of Venus.

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.

Births

★ 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''

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★ Yair Bacharach, German rabbi (d. 1702)

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★ Caspar Netscher, painter (d. 1684)
: ''See also .''

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 .''

References

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