* 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 ).

* 1639 – Imperial forces are defeated by the Swedes at the Battle of Chemnitz.

* 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 )

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 )

On January 14, 1639, a set of legal and administrative regulations called the Fundamental Orders was adopted, and established Connecticut as a self-ruled entity.

Hooker ’ s sermon in which he declared, “ The foundation of authority is laid in the free consent of the people ,” the Fundamental Orders were adopted by the colony of Connecticut on January 14, 1639 ( by New Style reckoning ).

Thomas Yale, son of Thomas and Ann ( Lloyd ) Yale, settled in the New Haven Colony and signed the Fundamental Agreement of the New Haven Colony on June 4, 1639.

In 1639 they adopted a set of Fundamental Articles for self-government, partly as a result of a similar action in the river towns.

The Fundamental Orders were adopted by the Connecticut Colony council on January 14, 1639 OS ( January 24, 1639 NS ).

" Ludlow drafted the Fundamental Orders, which were adopted on January 14, 1639 OS ( January 24, 1639 NS ), which established Connecticut as a self-ruled entity.

In 1639, the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut were adopted, which changed the spelling to " General Court ;" formalized its executive, judicial, and legislative authority ; and changed its membership to consist of the governor and six magistrates ( each elected for one year terms ) and three or four deputies per town ( elected for six month terms ).

The Fundamental Agreement of the New Haven Colony was signed on June 4, 1639.

In this capacity, he transcribed the Fundamental Orders into the official colony records on 14 January 1638, OS, ( 24 January 1639, NS ).

" Ludlow was a framer of a document called the Fundamental Orders, which was adopted on January 14, 1639.

The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, adopted in 1639, replaced the committees with deputies ; each town would elect three or four deputies for six-month terms.

The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, adopted in 1639, renamed the committees to " deputies ", the Corte to the Court, and established that the magistrates were generally-elected for yearlong terms ; the magistrate who received the highest number of votes would serve as governor for the year, so long as he had previously served as a magistrate and had not been governor the previous year.

The first recorded use of incunabula as a printing term is in a Latin pamphlet by Bernhard von Mallinckrodt, De ortu et progressu artis typographicae (" Of the rise and progress of the typographic art ", Cologne, 1639 ), which includes the phrase prima typographicae incunabula, " the first infancy of printing ", a term to which he arbitrarily set an end, 1500, which still stands as a convention.

He had now gained a reputation as one of the foremost of the younger generals of France, and Richelieu next employed him in the Italian campaign of 1639 – 1640 under " Cadet la Perle ", Henri de Lorraine, count of Harcourt ( 1601 – 1666 ).

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.

In 1639 William Wroth, then Rector of the parish church at Llanvaches in Monmouthshire, established the first Independent Church in Wales " according to the New England pattern ", i. e., Congregational.

In 1639, noting that Parliament had not been summoned in England for a decade, the free men of Maryland passed an act to the effect that " assemblies were to be called once in every three years at the least ", ensuring that their voices would be regularly heard.

In 1639, noting that Parliament had not been summoned in England for a decade, the free men of Maryland passed an act to the effect that " assemblies were to be called once in every three years at the least ", ensuring that their voices would be regularly heard.

Paul Le Jeune, also a student of the College, is considered as the " father of the Jesuit missions in New France ", and was the Superior of the Jesuits in Quebec from 1632 to 1639.

*" Center Church of the Green ", or The First Church of Christ ( United Church of Christ / Congregational ) was established in 1639.

The original royal patent of 1639 gave Gardiner the " right to possess the land forever ", with the island being declared a proprietary colony.

Glapthorne published a volume of Poems in 1639, including a series addressed to " Lucinda ", and a poem titled " Whitehall ", dedicated to Richard Lovelace, in 1643, among other minor works.