1639

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Years: 1636 1637 1638 - 1639 - 1640 1641 1642

Decades: 1600s 1610s 1620s - 1630s - 1640s 1650s 1660s

Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century 1639 by topic: Arts and Science Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science Lists of leaders Colonial governors - State leaders Birth and death categories Births - Deaths Establishments and disestablishments categories Establishments - Disestablishments Works category Works 1639 in other calendars Gregorian calendar 1639 MDCXXXIX Ab urbe condita 2392 Armenian calendar 1088 ԹՎ ՌՁԸ 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) Ethiopian calendar 1631 – 1632 Hebrew calendar 5399 – 5400 Hindu calendars - Vikram Samvat 1694 – 1695 - Shaka Samvat 1561 – 1562 - Kali Yuga 4740 – 4741 Iranian calendar 1017 – 1018 Islamic calendar 1049 – 1050 Japanese calendar Kan'ei 16 (寛永16年) - Imperial Year Kōki 2299 (皇紀2299年) - Jōmon Era 11639 Thai solar calendar 2182

1639 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

[edit] Events

• 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.
• November 24 - Jeremiah Horrocks observes the transit of Venus.
• Charles I starts the first of the Bishops Wars against Scotland.
• The first battle of the Bishops Wars was fought by William Keith, 7th Earl Marischal and the Marquis of Montrose when they led a Covenanter army of 9000 men past Muchalls Castle over the Causey Mounth to fight at the Bridge of Dee.
• 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.

[edit] Births

• February 6 - Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (d. 1691)
• 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)
• Yair Bacharach, German rabbi (d. 1702)

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.