1639

This article is about the year 1639.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1600s  1610s  1620s  – 1630s –  1640s  1650s  1660s
Years:	1636 1637 1638 – 1639 – 1640 1641 1642

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
Assyrian calendar	6389
Bahá'í calendar	-205–-204
Bengali calendar	1046
Berber calendar	2589
English Regnal year	14 Cha. 1 – 15 Cha. 1
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	1695–1696
- 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
Minguo calendar	273 before ROC 民前273年
Thai solar calendar	2182

Year 1639 (MDCXXXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

Events

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.
• April 14 – Swedish forcus under Johan Baner inflict a crushing defeat on the Imperial army at the Battle of Chemnitz. This prolongs the Thirty Year's War and allows the Swedes to occupy Pirna and advance into Bohemia.
• 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.

July–December

• August 22 – The founding day of Madras.
• 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.

Date unknown

• Fort St George, the first settlement of British India, is founded at Madras.
• 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).
• Jules Mazarin enters the service of Richelieu.
• Treaty of Zuhab between Ottoman (Turkish) Empire and Safavid Persia. Modern Turkey-Iran and Iraq-Iran border lines.

Births

• February 6 – Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (d. 1691)
• March 7 – Charles Stewart, 3rd Duke of Richmond (d. 1672)
• March 20 – Ivan Mazepa, Hetman of Ukraine (d. 1709)
• 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)

Deaths

• January – Shackerley Marmion, English dramatist (b. 1603)
• 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)