1639
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| 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 |
| Gregorian calendar | 1639 MDCXXXIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2392 |
| Armenian calendar | 1088 ԹՎ ՌՁԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6389 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1560–1561 |
| Bengali calendar | 1046 |
| Berber calendar | 2589 |
| English Regnal year | 14 Cha. 1 – 15 Cha. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2183 |
| Burmese calendar | 1001 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7147–7148 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 4335 or 4275 — to — 己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 4336 or 4276 |
| Coptic calendar | 1355–1356 |
| Discordian calendar | 2805 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1631–1632 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5399–5400 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1695–1696 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1560–1561 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4739–4740 |
| Holocene calendar | 11639 |
| Igbo calendar | 639–640 |
| Iranian calendar | 1017–1018 |
| Islamic calendar | 1048–1049 |
| Japanese calendar | Kan'ei 16 (寛永１６年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1560–1561 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 10 days |
| Korean calendar | 3972 |
| Minguo calendar | 273 before ROC 民前273年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 171 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2181–2182 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳土虎年 (male Earth-Tiger) 1765 or 1384 or 612 — to — 阴土兔年 (female Earth-Rabbit) 1766 or 1385 or 613 |
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.
Events
[change | change source]- 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.