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 |
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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[edit] Events of 1639
[edit] January - June
- January 14 - Connecticut's first constitution, the Fundamental Orders, is adopted.
- March 3 - The early settlement of Taunton, Massachusetts is incorporated as a town.
- March 13 - Harvard University is named for clergyman John Harvard.
- May - The first of the Bishops' Wars breaks out 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 9,000 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: A Republic of the United Provinces fleet decisively 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 the Urals to the Pacific, to Okhotsk.
- Montreal is first settled.
- Sakoku (closed country policy) starts in Japan (approximate date).
[edit] Births
| 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 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7147 – 7148 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊寅年十一月廿八日 (4275/4335-11-28) — to —
己卯年十二月初八日(4276/4336-12-8) |
| 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 |
- 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 (b. 1592)
- January 23 - Francisco Maldonado de Silva, Peruvian Jewish poet (b. 1592)
- January 24 - Georg Jenatsch, Swiss politician (b. 1596)
- May 21 - Tommaso Campanella, Italian theologian and poet (b. 1568)
- June 1 - Melchior Franck, German composer (b. c.1579)
- July 18 - Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, German general (b. 1604)
- August 4 - Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Mexican dramatist (b. c. 1571)
- August 20 - Martin Opitz von Boberfeld, German poet (b. 1597)
- September 20 - Johannes Meursius, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1579)
- October 28 - Stefano Landi, Italian composer (b. 1587)
- November 7 - Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour, English politician (b. c.1560)
- November 26 - John Spottiswoode, Scottish historian (b. 1565)
See also Category:1639 deaths.
[edit] References
- ^ Roberts, J: "History of the World.". Penguin, 1994.
