Information about 1639
| Centuries: | 8th century - 9th century - 10th century |
| Decades: | 850s 860s 870s - 880s - 890s 900s 910s |
| Years: | 885 886 887 - 888 - 889 890 891 |
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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
| Gregorian calendar | 1639 MDCXXXIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2392 |
| Armenian calendar | 1088 ԹՎ ՌՁԸ |
| Bah' calendar | -205 – -204 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2183 |
| Chinese calendar | 4275/4335-7-24 (戊寅年七月廿四日) — to — 4276/4336-7-4(己卯年七月初四日) |
| 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 | 1049 – 1050 |
| Japanese calendar | Kan'ei 0 (寛永0年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2299 (皇紀2299年) |
| Julian calendar | 1684 |
| 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)
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- Yair Bacharach, German rabbi (d. 1702)
- Caspar Netscher, painter (d. 1684)
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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)
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- Dahomey - Dakodonou, King of Dahomey (1620-1645)
- Ethiopia - Fasilides, Emperor of Ethiopia (1632-1667)
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- China (Ming Dynasty) - Chongzhen, Emperor of China (1627-1644)
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1638 colonial governors - Events of 1639 - 1640 colonial governors - Colonial governors by year
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- Francisco de Vasconcelos, Governor of Angola (1635-1639)
- Pedro César de Meneses, Governor of Angola (1639-1645)
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