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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 ).

EVENTS OF 1639

January - June

January 14 - Connecticut 's first Constitution , the " Fundamental Orders ," is adopted.

January 23 - Francisco Maldonado De Silva , Peru vian Jew ish 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 . Roberts, J: "History of the World.". Penguin, 1994.

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 )

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 )

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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 c 1571 )

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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