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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.
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1639 and English
* 1586 – John Ford, English dramatist ( d. 1639 )
The effectiveness of the Dutch frigates became most visible in the Battle of the Downs in 1639, encouraging most other navies, especially the English, to adopt similar designs.
An English fencing manual of 1639 used the term in reference specifically to the " Science and Art " of swordplay.
* January 21 – Shackerley Marmion, English dramatist ( d. 1639 )
** Henry Wotton, English author and diplomat ( d. 1639 )
* date unknown – Thomas Ellwood, English religious writer ( b. 1639 )
* August 20 – Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet, English playwright ( b. 1639 )
* May 4 – John Nevison, English highwayman ( b. 1639 )
* Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland ( 1584 – 1639 ), English poet, translator and dramatist
When in 1639 a large Spanish transport fleet sought refuge in the English Downs moorage, Charles did not dare to protect it against a Dutch attack ; the resulting Battle of the Downs undermined both Spanish sea power and Charles's reputation.
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.
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.
In 1639, Comenius published his Pansophiæ Prodromus, and in the following year his English friend Hartlib published, without his consent, the plan of the pansophic work as outlined by Comenius.
In 1639 the Battle of the Downs took place here, when the Dutch navy destroyed a Spanish fleet which had sought refuge in neutral English waters.
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 ).
He held the post of High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1639, before the English Civil War.
Shelton was settled by the English as part of the town of Stratford, Connecticut, in 1639.
It was settled by the English in 1638 as Merrimac, after the Merrimack River, and incorporated in 1639 as Salisbury, after Salisbury in Wiltshire, England.
Southold was settled in 1640 and in most histories is reported as the first English settlement on Long Island in the future New York State although Lion Gardiner established a manor on Gardiners Island in East Hampton a year earlier in 1639.
Thomas Ellwood ( 1639 – 1 March 1714 ) was an English religious writer.
In 1639 he reached an agreement with the English on St Kitts that neither nation should grow tobacco.
1639 ) was an English Jacobean and Caroline playwright and poet born in Ilsington in Devon in 1586.
Sir Henry Wotton ( 30 March 1568 – December 1639 ) was an English author, diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1614 and 1625.
This work appeared in English translation by Robert Gentilis in 1639.
1639 and East
* 1639 – Madras ( now Chennai ), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.
* Gardiners Island, founded 1639, now part of East Hampton, New York
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.
The name Madras is derived from Madraspatnam, the site chosen by the British East India Company for a permanent settlement 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.
1639 and India
In 1639 it acquired Madras on the east coast of India, where it quickly surpassed Portuguese Goa as the principal European trading centre on the Indian Subcontinent.
Fort St. George ( India ) | Fort St. George was founded at Chennai | Madras in 1639
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.
1639 and Company
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.
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.
1639 and purchased
Roger Ludlow ( 1590 – 1664 ), one of the founders of the Colony of Connecticut, helped to purchase and charter the towns of Fairfield ( 1639 ) and Norwalk ( purchased 1640, chartered as a town in 1651 ).
First settled in 1639 after being purchased from Native American leader Wequash, Guilford is considered by some to have the third largest collection of historic homes in New England, with important buildings from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.
The land was purchased for $ 20, 000, from the Van Rensselaer family who had owned it since 1639.
The land on which Winchester now sits was purchased from Native Americans by representatives of the settlement of Charlestown in 1639, and the area was first settled in 1640.
The tract purchased by Jonas Bronck in 1639 lay between the Harlem River and the river that came to be called " Bronck's river ".
Lion Gardiner reportedly purchased the island locally in 1639 from the Montaukett Indians for " a large black dog, some powder and shot, and a few Dutch blankets.
Lion Gardiner in 1639 purchased land, what became known as Gardiner's Island, from the Montaukett people.
Rembrandt purchased the house in 1639 and lived there until he went bankrupt in 1656, when all his belongings were auctioned.
Also, in 1639 Pope Urban VIII purchased slaves for himself from the Knights of Malta.
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