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
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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 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 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)
- 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)
Deaths
- January 20 - Mustafa I, Ottoman Sultan (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
- July 18 - Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, German general (b. 1604)
- August 4 - Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Mexican dramatist
- 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
- November 26 - John Spottiswoode, Scottish historian (b. 1565)
