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1639 In England
Events from the year 1639 in England. Incumbents * Monarch – Charles I * Secretary of State – Sir John Coke Events * 26 January – King Charles I raises (with difficulty) an army and begins to march north to fight the Scottish Covenanters in the First Bishops' War, opening the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. * 27 February – Charles denounces the Covenanters. * 21 April – William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele and Robert Greville, 2nd Baron Brooke imprisoned for refusing to fight against the Covenanters. * 25 April – Charles issues a proclamation promising to pardon rebels. * 14 May – Charles issues a further proclamation promising to settle the Covenanters' grievances and not to invade Scotland. * 19 June – Treaty of Berwick signed between the King and the Covenanters, ending the First Bishops' War. * 15 September – Battle of the Downs between the Dutch and Spanish in English waters. * 24 November (4 December in Gregorian calendar) – Lancashire astronomers J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1639
Events January–March * January 14 – Connecticut's first constitution, the Fundamental Orders, is adopted. * January 19 – Hämeenlinna ( sv, Tavastehus) is granted privileges, after it separates from the Vanaja parish, as its own city in Tavastia. *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. * March 3 – The early settlement of Taunton, Massachusetts, is incorporated as a town. * March 13 – Harvard University is named for cle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
