A Life of Saint Ninian ( Vita Sancti Niniani ) was written around 1160 by Ailred of Rievaulx, and in 1639 James Ussher discusses Ninian in his Brittanicarum Ecclesiarum Antiquitates.

His Commentarius de Capellorum gente, giving an account of the Cappel family to which he belonged, was published by his nephew James Cappel ( 1639 – 1722 ), who, at the age of eighteen, became professor of Hebrew at Saumur, but, on the revocation of the edict of Nantes, fled to England.

Young James also learned much from Antonio Verrio ( 1639 ?– 1707 ) and Louis Laguerre ( 1663 – 1721 ), prominent foreign decorative painters then working in England.

* History of England from the Accession of James I to the Outbreak of the Civil War, 1603 – 1642 by Samuel Rawson Gardiner ( 1883 ): Volume I ( 1603 – 1607 ), Volume II ( 1607 – 1616 ), Volume III ( 1616 – 1621 ), Volume IV ( 1621 – 1623 ), Volume V ( 1623 – 1625 ), Volume VI ( 1625 – 1629 ), Volume VII ( 1629 – 1635 ), Volume VIII ( 1635 – 1639 ), Volume IX ( 1639 – 1641 ), Volume X ( 1641 – 1642 )

* Sir James Douglas, 1st Baronet ( 1639 – 1708 )

* 1639 / 40 Henry James Thomas Gamble

Earl of Airlie is a title in the Peerage of Scotland, created on 2 April 1639 for James Ogilvy, 7th Lord Ogilvy of Airlie, along with the title Lord Ogilvy of Alith and Lintrathen.

The 5th Lord Ogilvy's grandson, James Ogilvy ( c. 1593 – 1666 ), was created Earl of Airlie by Charles I. at York in 1639.

* James Ogilvy, 7th Lord Ogilvy of Airlie ( 1586 – 1665 ) ( created Earl of Airlie in 1639 )

The Rev James Mowbrae was dismissed in 1639 ; his successor Rev Matthew McKail was transferred to Bothwell in 1649, while Rev Andrew Morton was also dismissed for non-conformity in 1662.

In 1639 Scotland was divided between the Presbyterianism of the Lords of the Congregation, and the Episcopalianism favoured by King Charles I. James Hamilton, 3rd marquess of Hamilton, the King's advisor on all things Scottish, was sent north to enforce the King's will, he had previously dissolved the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland when they had abolished the Episcopacy.

Pedersons book mentioned that in 1639 James Ware assumed that the birthplace of Sacrobosco was near Dublin.

Apparently, the method that became known as Simpson's rule was well known and used earlier by Bonaventura Cavalieri ( a student of Galileo ) in 1639, later rediscovered by James Gregory ( who Simpson succeeded as Regius Professor of Mathematics at the University of St Andrews ) and was only attributed to Simpson.

In Scotland itself, from 1644 – 45 a Scottish civil war was fought between Scottish Royalists — supporters of Charles I — under James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, and the Covenanters, who had controlled Scotland since 1639 and allied with the English Parliament.

* James Wedderburn, ( 1585 – 1639 ), bishop of Dunblane ( 1636 – 1638 )

His conflict with Montmorency is depicted in a 17th century play by George Chapman and James Shirley entitled The Tragedy of Chabot, Admiral of France ( 1639 ).

* James Wedderburn ( bishop ) ( 1585 – 1639 ), Scottish prelate

Stratford ( formerly known as Cupheag Plantation, and prior to that, Pequonnocke ) was founded in 1639 by Puritan leader Reverend Adam Blakeman ( pronounced Blackman ), William Beardsley, and either 16 families — according to legend — or approximately 35 families — suggested by later research — who had recently arrived in Connecticut from England seeking religious freedom.

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

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

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.

Bernini himself would not marry until May 1639, at age forty-one, when he wed a twenty-two year old Roman girl, Caterina Tezio, an arranged marriage that bore him eleven children.

* 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 ).

Born at Aller, Somerset, he was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, gaining his MA and becoming a Fellow of Emmanuel in 1639.

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.

In 1638, Bachiler and others successfully petitioned to begin a new plantation at Winnacunnet, to which he gave the name Hampton when the town was incorporated in 1639.

A similar painting, with the date of 1639, suggests some study of Rembrandt masterpieces, and a similar influence is apparent in a picture of 1641 representing the Regents of the Company of St Elizabeth, and in the portrait of Maria Voogt at Amsterdam.

In 1639 the Russians first reached the Pacific 65 miles southeast at the mouth of the Ulya River.

In 1639, during the Dutch struggle for independence from Spain, Tromp defeated a large Spanish fleet bound for Flanders at the Battle of the Downs, marking the end of Spanish naval power.

* Seaport at Sunset ( Odysseus ) ( 1639 )

* Embarkation of Saint Paula Romana at Ostia ( 1639 )

He became a singer at St Mark's Basilica in Venice in 1616, second organist in 1639, first organist in 1665, and in 1668 maestro di cappella.

According to historian John M. Taylor: " Early in 1639 the General Court granted a commission to Ludlow to begin a plantation at Pequannocke.

Astor is located at ( 29. 1639 ,-81. 5346 ).

* Nathaniel Saltonstall ( 1639 – 1707 ), judge at the Salem witch trials

The population was 1639 at the 2010, an increase of 2. 7 percent from 1, 596 at the 2000 census.

In 1639, however, he again overran northern Germany, defeated the Saxons at Chemnitz and invaded Bohemia itself.

This family bible may have belonged to the family of his ancestor Edward Browne who in 1668 in Maryland, Virginia married Sarah Williams, the daughter of Morgan Williams ( there were at least five people called Morgan Williams who immigrated to Virginia between 1639 and 1650 ).

In a preliminary battle, the Action of 18 September 1639, Tromp was the first fleet commander known to deliberately use line of battle tactics.

His period of activity as a painter is traditionally limited to the two decades between 1639 and 1660, fitting directly within the generally accepted limits of the Dutch Golden Age ’ s most significant period, 1640-1665.

The latter remained in town between 1639 and 1651 and conducted a private school.

* Patriarch Nicephorus of Alexandria, Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria between 1639 and 1645

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.

The main period of witch hunting in Osnabrück was between 1561 and 1639, a time of social unrest and tensions because of the Protestant Reformation and the European wars of religion.

During the tenure of mayor Dr. Pelster between 1636 – 1639, more than 40 women were killed as witches.

He worked to bring about peace between the King and the Scots in 1639 and 1640, but when in the latter year the quarrel between Charles and the English parliament was renewed, he deserted the King who soon deprived him of his office of chamberlain.

Control of the waterway and its use as a border was a source of contention between Iran and the predecessor of the Iraqi state since a peace treaty signed in 1639 between the Persian and the Ottoman empires, which divided the territory according to tribal customs and loyalties, without attempting a rigorous land survey.

Between 1618 and 1639 it became a battleground between competing factions during the Bündner Wirren.

He attended the University of Alcalá de Henares between 1634 and 1637, studying logic and physics and receiving his Licentiate in December 1639.

The town was captured and recaptured several times by the French and Spanish between 1639 and 1658, and finally annexed to France in the Treaty of the Pyrenees of 1659.

William Sandys who between 1636 and 1639 made the Avon ) navigable from Tewkesbury to Stratford-upon-Avon was at the same time also authorised to improve the Teme between Worcester and Ludlow.

In 1638 and 1639 were written the Letters between Lord George Digby and Sir Kenelm Digby, Knt.

In 1639 Gorges obtained a renewed patent, the Gorges Patent, for the area between the Piscataqua and Kennebec Rivers, in the form of a royal charter from Charles I of England.

Till late nineteenth century, the two widely known ancient sources on Tulsidas ' life were the Bhaktamal composed by Nabhadas between 1583 and 1639, and a commentary on Bhaktamal titled Bhaktirasbodhini composed by Priyadas in 1712.

Because of restrictions in the constitution that disallowed consecutive terms, he was in and out of the office of governor a total of eight times between 1639 and his death in 1653 / 4.

The tract purchased by Jonas Bronck in 1639 lay between the Harlem River and the river that came to be called " Bronck's river ".

Observations of the 1639 transit, combined with the principle of parallax, provided an estimate of the distance between the Sun and the Earth that was more accurate than any other up to that time.

After treaties with the local tribes, members of the Connecticut Colony began to settle the area between the Saugatuck and the Norwalk rivers to the west between 1639 and 1661.