1639 (MDCXXXIX ) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar , the 1639th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 639th year of the 2nd millennium , the 39th year of the 17th century , and the 10th and last year of the 1630s decade. As of the start of 1639, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
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February 18 : Thousands of casualties are sustained in a naval battle between Spain and the United Provinces of the Netherlands in the English Channel .
October 21 : Battle of the Downs
January– March
January 19 – Hämeenlinna (Swedish : Tavastehus ) is granted privileges , after it separates from the Vanaja parish, as its own city in Tavastia .[1]
c. January – The first printing press in British North America is started in Cambridge, Massachusetts , by Stephen Daye .
February 18 – In the course of the Eighty Years' War , a sea battle is fought in the English Channel off of the coast of Dunkirk between the navies of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, with 12 warships, and Spain, with 12 galleons and eight other ships. The Spanish are forced to flee after three of their ships are lost and 1,600 Spaniards killed or injured, while the Dutch sustain 1,700 casualties without the loss of a ship.[2]
Date unknown
The Casiquiare canal , a river forming a natural channel between the Amazon River and Orinoco River basins, is first encountered by Europeans, an expedition led by Pedro Teixeira and Cristóbal Diatristán de Acuña .
French nobleman Jérôme le Royer de la Dauversière obtains the seigneurial title to the island of Montreal in New France (modern-day Quebec ) in the name of the Société Notre-Dame de Montréal to establish a Roman Catholic mission to evangelize indigenous peoples .
Russian Cossacks advance over the Urals to the Pacific, to Okhotsk .
Sakoku , the isolationist foreign policy of Japan , comes fully into effect.
Dejima , an island trading post off Nagasaki , becomes the only official port of trade allowed for Europeans , with the multi-national United East Indies Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie ) as the only European party officially allowed. Trading parties from China, India and other places are still officially allowed, though the VOC will become the usual broker for them.
Japanese wives and children of Dutch and British people from Hirado are sent to Batavia (Asian headquarters of the VOC, renamed Jakarta by the Japanese around three centuries later) on Dutch ships.[9]
The Treaty of Zuhab is signed between the Ottoman (Turkish) Empire and Safavid Persia , delineating the modern Turkey -Iran and Iraq -Iran border lines.
Éléonore Desmier d'Olbreuse
Martin Lister
Giovanni Battista Gaulli
Increase Mather
January– March
January 1
January 3 – Éléonore Desmier d'Olbreuse , French Huguenot noblewoman, grandmother of George II of Great Britain, great-grandmother of Frederick the Great (d. 1722 )
January 5 – Otto Wilhelm Königsmarck , Swedish military officer (d. 1688 )
January 16 – John Proby , English politician (d. 1710 )
January 17 – Sir Francis Lee, 4th Baronet , English Member of Parliament (d. 1667 )
January 19 – Noël Alexandre , French theologian and ecclesiastical historian (d. 1724 )
January 20 – Hungerford Dunch , English politician (d. 1680 )
January 29 – Gover Le Buen , Dutch revolutionary fighter (d. 1712 )
January 31 – Duke Bernhard of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön , German-Danish general (d. 1676 )
February 4 – Alessandro Melani , Italian composer (d. 1703 )
February 6 – Daniel Georg Morhof , German writer and scholar (d. 1691 )
February 12 – Juan García de Salazar , Spanish Baroque composer (d. 1710 )
February 17 – Claude Estiennot de la Serre , French historian (d. 1699 )
February 27 – Adriaen van Bloemen , Flemish painter, printmaker, draughtsman and engraver (d. 1697 )
March 7 – Charles Stewart, 3rd Duke of Richmond , English nobleman (d. 1672 )
March 20 – Ivan Mazepa , Hetman of Ukraine (d. 1709 )
March 30 – Elanor Allerton , English-born American colonist (d. 1674 )
April– June
April 3 – Alessandro Stradella , Italian composer (k. 1682 )
April 12 – Martin Lister , English naturalist and physician (d. 1712 )
April 13 – Joan Leonardsz Blasius , Dutch writer (d. 1672 )
April 16 – Alessandro Baratta , Italian painter, engraver (d. 1714 )
April 24 – Johann Benedict Carpzov II , German theologian (d. 1699 )
April 29 – François Nepveu , French Jesuit writer on ascetical subjects (d. 1708 )
May 8 – Giovanni Battista Gaulli , Italian artist working in the High Baroque and early Rococo periods (d. 1709 )
May 10 – Peleg Sanford , Rhode Island colonial governor (d. 1701 )
May 19 – Charles Weston, 3rd Earl of Portland , English nobleman (d. 1665 )
May 27 – Laura Martinozzi , Duchess consort of Modena (d. 1687 )
June 21 – Increase Mather , American minister (d. 1723 )
July– September
July 8 – John Vaughan, 3rd Earl of Carbery , English politician and Irish nobleman (d. 1713 )
July 15 – Richard Butler, 1st Earl of Arran , Irish soldier (d. 1686 )
August 18 – William Lowther , English landowner and politician (d. 1705 )
August 28 – Marie Mancini , Italian courtier, third of the five Mancini sisters (d. 1715 )
August 30 – Cornelia van der Veer , Dutch poet (d. 1704 )
September 7 – David Martin , French theologian (d. 1721 )
September 8 – William Trumbull , English diplomat and politician (d. 1716 )
September 17 – Hans Herr , Swiss-born Mennonite bishop (d. 1725 )
September 21 – Robbert Duval , painter from the Northern Netherlands (d. 1732 )
September 29
October– December
October 14 – Simon van der Stel , last Commander and first Governor of the Cape Colony (d. 1712 )
October 17 – Charles-Claude Genest , French dramatist and playwright (d. 1719 )
November 17 – Eleazer Kimberly , Secretary of the State of Connecticut (d. 1709 )
November 21 – Fortunatus Hueber , German Franciscan historian and theologian (d. 1706 )
December 3 – Isidoro de Atondo y Antillon , Spanish admiral (d. 1689 )
December 18 – Gottfried Kirch , German astronomer, first 'Astronomer Royal' in Berlin (d. 1710 )
December 22 – Jean Racine , French dramatist (d. 1699 )[10]
December 28 – Dirk van Bleiswijk , Dutch politician, writer (d. 1681 )
December 29 – Muhammad Sultan , Mughal Empire emperor (d. 1676 )
Mustafa I
Johannes Meursius
January – Shackerley Marmion , English dramatist (b. 1603 )
January 14 – Sophie of Brunswick-Lüneburg , Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Duchess of Hunters Village (b. 1563 )
January 20 – Mustafa I , Ottoman Sultan (b. 1592 )
January 23 – Francisco Maldonado da Silva , Peruvian Jewish poet (b. 1592 )
January 24 – Georg Jenatsch , Swiss politician (b. 1596 )
February 5 – Augusta of Denmark , Duchess Consort of Holstein-Gottorp (b. 1580 )
March 16 – Pieter de Neyn , Dutch painter (b. 1597 )
April 1 – Johann Philipp, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg , German Duke (b. 1597 )
April 2 – Nicolaes Olycan , Dutch businessman (b. 1599 )
April 6
April 9 – Albret Skeel , State Admiral of Denmark (b. 1572 )
May 13 – Peter Lauremberg , German writer and professor (b. 1585 )
May 21 – Tommaso Campanella , Italian theologian and poet (b. 1568 )
June 1 – Melchior Franck , German composer (b. c. 1579 )
June 6 – Peter Crüger , German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1580 )
July 18 – Bernard of Saxe-Weimar , German general (b. 1604 )
August 4 – Juan Ruiz de Alarcón , Mexican dramatist (b. c. 1571 )[11]
August 6 – Hans van Steenwinckel the Younger , Danish architect (b. 1587 )
August 20 – Martin Opitz von Boberfeld , German poet (b. 1597 )[12]
August 21 – Henry Wenceslaus, Duke of Oels-Bernstadt , Duke of Bernstadt (1617– 1639) (b. 1592 )
September 20 – Johannes Meursius , Dutch classical scholar (b. 1579 )
September 28 – Louis de Nogaret de La Valette , French Catholic Cardinal (b. 1593 )
October 8 – Frances Howard, Duchess of Richmond , British duchess (b. 1578 )
October 28 – Stefano Landi , Italian composer (b. 1587 )[13]
November 3 – Martin de Porres , Peruvian monk, Roman Catholic saint (b. 1579 )
November 4 – Thomas Finch, 2nd Earl of Winchilsea , Member of Parliament (b. 1578 )
November 7 – Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour , English politician (b. c. 1560 )
November 8 – Richard Knightley , English politician (b. 1593 )
November 26 – John Spottiswoode , Scottish archbishop and historian (b. 1565 )[14]
December 15 – Muzio Oddi , Italian mathematician (b. 1569 )
December 17 – Nils Turesson Bielke , Swedish politician (b. 1569 )
December 25 – John Christian of Brieg , Duke of Brzeg (b. 1591 )
Date unknown – Madeleine du Fargis , French courtier
Approximate date – John Ford , English dramatist (b. 1586 )
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