The English acquired small islands like St Kitts in 1624, expelled in 1629 they returned in 1639 and seized Jamaica in 1655.

On 27. 11. 1639 Johann Baron von Beck, governor of the province of Luxembourg on behalf of the Spanish King, acquired the greatest part of its properties.

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

Fort St. George ( India ) | Fort St. George was founded at Chennai | Madras in 1639

In 1639, the English East India Company purchased the village of Madraspatnam and one year later it established the Agency of Fort St George, precursor of the Madras Presidency, although there had been Company factories at Machilipatnam and Armagon since the very early 17th century.

The name Madras is derived from Madraspatnam, the site chosen by the British East India Company for a permanent settlement in 1639.

The Royal Castle Hotel was built in 1639 on the then new quay.

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 ).

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.

Year 1639 ( MDCXXXIX ) was a common year starting on Saturday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

* April 21 – Jean Racine, French dramatist who wrote several great tragedies based on Greek and Roman literature ( b. 1639 )

The city was founded in 1639, based on Olavinlinna castle.

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 ).

It was officially named Portsmouth on May 12, 1639.

The post was founded in 1663 by Henry Lucas, who was Cambridge University's Member of Parliament from 1639 – 1640, and was officially established by King Charles II on January 18, 1664.

The Dutch name is found on the New Netherland map of 1639 by Johannes Vingboon, which is before any known English records.

The land which today comprises Milford, Orange and West Haven was " purchased " on February 1, 1639 from Ansantawae, chief of the local Paugussets ( an Algonquian tribe ) by English settlers affiliated with the contemporary New Haven Colony.

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.

During the operations on the Scottish border in the Bishops ' Wars ( 1639 – 1640 ) he showed his skill and coolness in the dispositions by which he saved the English artillery at the Battle of Newburn ( 1640 ).

In the latter part of 1638, serving under Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar ( 1608 – 1639 ), he directed the assault on Breisach ( reputedly the strongest fortress on the upper Rhine ), which surrendered on December 17.

In June 1639 she was seen on her knees before the king at Berwick, " very earnestly soliciting for her father's coming over ".

Those plans included schemes such as supporting the Holy Roman Emperor raid on Inflanty in 1639, which he hoped would lead to a war ; an attempted alliance with Spain against France in 1640 – 1641, and in 1641 – 1643, with Denmark against Sweden.

He felt it his duty to take part on the side of King Charles I as a volunteer under Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex in the Bishops ' Wars of 1639 against the Scots.

A veteran of 18 years ' experience, Captain Skippon returned to England in 1638, and on 23 October 1639 was recommended by Charles I of England for a command in the Honourable Artillery Company and he moved to London to take up this command.

In 1639 he commissioned two voyages to the north, in search of the " Gold and Silver Islands " that Spanish reports placed in the North Pacific to the east of Japan, and sent Maarten Gerritsz Vries to explore the coasts of Korea and " Tartaria "; these, two returned fruitlessly.

In a session of the General Court held October 10, 1639 Ludlow was censured and fined by the Court for having exceeded the terms of the charter granted to settle areas that were to have been east of Fairfield.

They settled on the north east end of Aquidneck Island, and established a settlement they called Pocasset, but in 1639 changed the name to Portsmouth.

They settled on the north east end of Aquidneck Island, and established a settlement they called Pocasset, but in 1639 changed the name to Portsmouth.

* Maarten Tromp's attack on the Spanish fleet moored off the Kent coast in the Battle of the Downs in 1639.

Indeed, within the first half of the century the ford of Yeniseysk was established in 1619, the city of Yakutsk founded in 1632, and the important feat of reaching the Sea of Okhotsk on the Pacific coast in 1639.

In 1639, the British East India Company bought a three-mile long strip of land lying along the coast between the Cooum delta and the Egmore River encompassing an area of about five square kilometres from the Vijayanagara King Peda Venkata Rayalu.

Joining the Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie ( VOC ) Dutch East India Company in 1639, he served in a number of posts, including that of an assistant surgeon in the Batavia in the East Indies.

Old Delhi () ( Purānī Dillī ), walled city of Delhi, India, was founded as Shahjahanabad ( Urdu: ) by Mughal Emperor Shahjahan in 1639.

Being the third oldest port among the 12 major ports of India, it is over 125 years old, although maritime trade started way back in 1639 on the sea shore.

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.

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.

With the arrival of Thomas Larkham in 1639, it was renamed Northam, after Northam, Devon where he had been preacher.

In 1639 he was elected to the perpetual curacy of St Mary Aldermanbury in London, where he had a large following.

The influence of Richelieu, however, who wished to separate the queen from her Spanish connexions, exiled mother and daughter to Normandy, where in 1639 the young girl was married to Nicolas Langlois, seigneur de Motteville, president of the Chambre des Comptes of Rouen.

He fought in the campaigns of 1638 and 1639, and after the death of Richelieu returned to court, where he was coldly received by the king ( 18 February 1643 ).

In 1639 it was erected at Samjeondo, where the ceremony of surrender had been conducted.

In 1639 the monument was erected at Samjeondo, where the ceremony of submission had been conducted.

Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut ( c. 1639 – 25 February 1710 ) was a French soldier and explorer who is the first European known to have visited the area where the city of Duluth, Minnesota is now located and the headwaters of the Mississippi River near Grand Rapids.

In any case, no later than 1639 he was sent to Yakutia, where he married a Yakut captive and spent the next three years collecting tribute from the natives.

With him and 33 others, William signed, August 4, 1639, “ A Combination for a Government at Exeter, N. H .” William moved to Wells, Maine, with Wheelwright ; and when the latter went to England on the accession of Oliver Cromwell to power, William moved to Dover, where he was a ruling elder and often preached.

Rembrandt gained financial success through his artwork, and decided in 1639 to buy a house in the Jodenbreestraat, next to the place where he worked.

In 1639, he became preacher at the court and councilor ( Konsistorialrat ) in Stuttgart, where he advocated a fundamental church reform.

Having been born and raised in Augsburg, where his father Konrad Roth ( died 1637 ) worked as Doctor utriusque iuris for the Prince-Bishopric, from 1635 to 1639 Heinrich Roth studied Rhetoric at the University of Dillingen and Philosophy at the Jesuit college in Innsbruck.

By late 1639, he had to relocate to Florence, where he stayed for 8 years.

He left Plymouth shortly, and was in Portsmouth on Aquidneck Island ( later named Rhode Island ) where on the last day of April 1639 he and 28 others signed a compact calling themselves subjects of King Charles and forming a " civil body politick.

Whilst the Dutch were unable in four attempts to capture Macau from where Portugal monopolised the lucrative China-Japan trade, the Japanese shogunate's increasing suspicion of the intentions of the Catholic Portuguese led to their expulsion in 1639.

He was educated at the free grammar school of his native town, and in 1631 was nominated to the Lynn scholarship in Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1635 and MA in 1639.

John Lowell's ancestor, Percival, a merchant, came from Bristol, England, to Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1639, and his father, John, was the first minister of Newburyport, where he officiated 1726-67.

Released in 1639 following the death of Richelieu, the family went to the French West Indies, where d ' Aubigné had been made governor of Marie-Galante, though he and his family remained on Martinique.

He was accepted as a Theatine novice in 1639, spent his novitiate at the monastery of San Silvestro al Quirinale in Rome, and returned to Modena in 1647, where he was ordained in 1648.

In 1639 he went to Paris, introduced by the Tuscan ambassador, Alessandro del Nero, and where he lived until 1650, adapting his style to French taste, as in his series updating the Northern theme of the taking by Death of various individuals.

The house where Rembrandt lived between 1639 and 1658 is a museum: Museum het Rembrandthuis or the Rembrandt House Museum.