1639

1639 was a common year.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1600s  1610s  1620s  – 1630s –  1640s  1650s  1660s
Years:	1636 1637 1638 – 1639 – 1640 1641 1642

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 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.