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Years:
1636 1637 1638 - 1639 - 1640 1641 1642
Decades:
1600s 1610s 1620s - 1630s - 1640s 1650s 1660s
Centuries:
16th century - 17th century - 18th century
1639 in literature
1639 in science

Events

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

  • Yair Bacharach - German rabbi
  • December 22 - Jean Racine
  • Deaths

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