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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
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.
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
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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 c1571)
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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