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 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)

See also Category:1639 births.

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)

See also Category:1639 deaths.

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