* 1639 – Madras ( now Chennai ), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.

Both of these are published in the Historiae Francorum Scriptores, Tome ii ( Paris, 1639 – 1649 ).

* 1586 – John Ford, English dramatist ( d. 1639 )

* 1699 – Jean Racine, French dramatist ( b. 1639 )

The painter Roelandt Savery ( 1576 – 1639 ) entered the St. Luke ’ s guild in Utrecht at about the same time.

He was Great Constable of the kingdom of Naples ( 1639-1641 ) as had been his father Filippo I Colonna, ( 1578 – 11 April 1639 ).

* 1579 – Martin de Porres, Peruvian saint ( d. 1639 )

* 1639 – Jean Racine, French dramatist ( d. 1699 )

* 1639 – Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar ( d. 1691 )

* 1587 – Stefano Landi, Italian composer ( d. 1639 )

He secondly married ( 1579 ) Sophie of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( October 30, 1563 – 1639 ), daughter of William of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Dorothea of Denmark.

* 1639 – Melchior Franck, German composer ( b. 1579 )

* 1639 – The " Fundamental Orders ", the first written constitution that created a government, is adopted in Connecticut.

Mustafa I Deli ( 1591 – January 20, 1639 ) (), son of Mehmed III, was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1617 to 1618 and from 1622 to 1623.

* 1639 – John Spottiswoode, Scottish historian ( b. 1565 )

Murad IV reconquered Ottoman – Safavid War ( 1623 – 1639 ) | Baghdad from the Safavids in 1638.

Only two Sultans in this period personally exercised strong political and military control of the Empire: the vigorous Murad IV ( 1612 – 1640 ) recaptured Yerevan ( 1635 ) and Baghdad ( 1639 ) from the Safavids and reasserted central authority, albeit during a brief majority reign.

* 1639 – Simon van der Stel the last Commander and first Governor of the Cape Colony, the Dutch settlement at the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa ( d. 1712 )

In 1627 he began his apprenticeship as vice-papal legate at Ferrara, and on recommendations from two cardinals he was appointed successively Inquisitor of Malta and nuncio in Cologne ( 1639 – 1651 ).

* Philemon Martyr, a play by Jesuit Jacob Bidermann ( 1578 – 1639 )

* Richard Butler, 1st Earl of Arran ( 1639 – 1686 ), 1st Earl of Arran, marshal of the army in Ireland, lord deputy of Ireland

* 1568 – Tommaso Campanella, Italian theologian, philosopher, and poet ( d. 1639 )

* December 23 – Martin Opitz von Boberfeld, German poet ( d. 1639 )

Prince Jerzy Ossoliński ( 1595 – 1650 ) was a Polish nobleman ( szlachcic ), Crown Court Treasurer from 1632, governor ( voivode ) of Sandomierz from 1636, Reichsfürst ( Imperial Prince ) since 1634, Crown Deputy Chancellor from 1639, Great Crown Chancellor from 1643, sheriff ( starost ) of Bydgoszcz ( 1633 ), Lubomel ( 1639 ), Puck and Bolim ( 1647 ), magnate, politician and diplomat.

After seeking Spanish support late in 1638 for action against the Regent Christine Marie of Savoy, Madame Royale, Thomas went to Spanish Milan early in 1639, and alongside Spanish forces invaded Piedmont, where many towns welcomed him.

After seeking Spanish support late in 1638 for action against Regent Christine Marie, Madame Royale, Thomas went to Spanish Milan early in 1639, and alongside Spanish forces invaded Piedmont, where many towns welcomed him.

In 1639, in response to Charles ' attempts to reform the Scottish Church, civil war broke out between the King's forces and the Presbyterian Covenanters.

On 19 November 1639 he fought in the famous rearguard action called the battle of the " Route de Quiers ", and during the winter re-victualled the citadel of Turin, held by the French against the forces of Prince Thomas of Savoy.

At the Battle of the Downs in 1639 a Spanish fleet was destroyed by the Dutch navy, and the Spanish found themselves unable to adequately reinforce and supply their forces in the Netherlands.

Early in 1639, the Marquis of Huntly assembled his forces here, and thereafter went to Kintore in lower Aberdeenshire, eventually marching from there to Aberdeen itself.

In the 1630s the Covenanters challenged the Doctors of Aberdeen by holding a meeting in Muchalls Castle and responding to certain letters issued by the doctors, thus setting the stage for later military engagements ; namely, William Keith, 7th Earl Marischal and the Marquess of Montrose led a Covenanter army of 9000 men in the first battle of the Civil War in 1639 by marching over the Causey Mounth to attack forces at the Bridge of Dee, effectively gaining control of Old Aberdeen.

Cuyp probably first encountered a painting by van Goyen in 1640 when van Goyen was, as Stephen Reiss points out “ at the height of powers .” This is noticeable in the comparison between two of Cuyp ’ s landscape paintings inscribed 1639 where no properly formed style is apparent and the landscape backgrounds he painted two years later for two of his father ’ s group portraits that are distinctly van Goyenesque.

The company built two forts that are in ruins today: in 1628 on the face of Nassau Cove and 1639 at Nassau on the hill, as well as warehouses for goods destined for the mainland trading posts.

Among the most important treatises on the language are the " Tesoro de la Lengua Guaraní " ( Madrid, 1639 ) by Father Montoya, published in Paris and Leipzig in 1876 ; and the " Catecismo de la Lengua Guaraní " of Father Diego Díaz de la Guerra ( Madrid, 1630 ).

There are five historic house museums, including Dudley Farm and the Henry Whitfield House ( 1639 ), the oldest dwelling house in Connecticut and the oldest stone house in North America.

There are two separate elements to the present-day house: the timber-framed south range built in the 15th century, and the brick west range constructed in 1639.

both were founded in 1639 by French nun Marie de l ' Incarnation ( 1599 – 1672 ) alongside laywoman Marie-Madeline de Chauvigny de la Peltrie ( 1603 – 1671 ) and are the first Canadian institutions to have music as part of the curriculum.

The following decade, including his comings and goings during the Civil Wars, are largely unaccounted for by anything other than unsubstantiated stories of the ilk: that he accompanied Charles I to Scotland in 1639 in connection with the first Bishops ' War ; and that he came to Parliament's financial assistance with loans and solicitations in 1641-42 and in 1645.

The chronology of Flinck's works, so far as they are seen in public galleries, comprises, in addition to the foregoing, the Grey Beard of 1639 at Dresden, the Girl of 1641 at the Louvre, a portrait group of a male and female ( 1646 ) at Rotterdam, a lady ( 1651 ) at Berlin.

interlaced with a date are a winter landscape in the Rijksmuseum at Amsterdam ( dated 1639 ), and another in the Martins collection at Kiel ( 1642 ) immature works both, of poor quality.

Other plays are the comedy The Hollander ( licensed for performance 12 March 1636 ), Wit in a Constable ( c. 1636 – 38 ), and the tragicomedy The Lady's Privilege ( all printed 1640 ), and the historical tragedy Albertus Wallenstein ( c. 1634 – 39, printed 1639 ), based on the famous general in the Thirty Years ' War.

There are records of a Parish church existing in Tillicoultry from 1639, the current minister being Colin Coyle, who only recently replaced the shamed Neil McMurray, and knowledge of cloth manufacture dating from the 1560s.

His publications of 1639, 1640, and 1652 include masses which are written using ostinato basses, including the Ruggiero and the Romanesca.

They are: A Crown for a Conqueror, a religious poem, and Too Late to Call Back Yesterday, a moral dialogue, both published in 1639 ; and A Survey of the Sciences, which survived in manuscript and was published only in the 1880s.

Other chapels are located in Montagnier ( 14th century ), Sarreyer ( after 1639 ), Lourtier ( 1659 ), Vernays ( 1661 ), Media ( 1679 ), Champsec ( 1684 ) and Versegères ( 1684 ).