The first man-made canal in North America, Mother Brook, was created in Dedham in 1639.

Charles Marie de La Condamine, seven months later, was able to give to the Académie française an account of Father Roman's voyage, and thus confirm the existence of this waterway, first reported by Father Acuña in 1639.

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.

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.

He was concerned in the Fronde of 1651, but soon afterwards became reconciled with Mazarin, and in 1654 married the cardinal's niece, Anne Marie Martinozzi ( 1639 – 1672 ), and secured the government of Guienne.

* Anne de Lorraine ( 1639 † 1720 ), married her cousin François Marie de Lorraine ( 1624 † 1694 ), Prince of Lillebonne in 1660, had issue ;

In addition, Donough inherited large landholdings from his half-brother, William O ' Neylan ( O ' Neillan ) ( 1635 – 78 ) of Dysert, to whose father Daniel, Marie Rua had been married from 1634 until his untimely death in 1639.

He married Tekla Anna Wołłowicz in 1626, Katarzyna Eugenia Tyszkiewicz in 1639 and Lucricia Marie Strozzi in October, 1642 in Warsaw.

* Marie ( 1639 – 1715 ), who married Lorenzo Colonna and was the first romantic love of King Louis XIV of France,

Secondly, he married on 20 July 1656 with Countess Marie Dorothea Sofie of Oettingen ( 29 December 1639 – 29 June 1698 ).

Gale was born at Kingsteignton, Devon, the son of Bridget Gale ( née Walrond ) and Theophilus Gale D. D. ( d. 1639, vicar of Kingsteignton and prebendary of Exeter Cathedral ).

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

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

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

* July 11 – Narai of Thailand ( b. 1639 )

* July 30 – Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar ( b. 1639 )

* June 27 – Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu, French poet ( b. 1639 )

* August 23 – Increase Mather, American Puritan minister ( b. 1639 )

* October 11 – Hans Herr, Swiss-born Mennonite bishop ( b. 1639 )

* February 5 – Eleonore d ' Esmier d ' Olbreuse, Duchess of Braunschweig-Lüneburg ( b. 1639 )

* February 25 – Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut, French explorer ( b. c. 1639 )

** Niccolao Manucci, Italian writer and traveller ( b. 1639 )

* January 17 – Captain Benjamin Church, Plymouth Colony settler and military officer ( b. c. 1639 )

* January 12 – John Vaughan, 3rd Earl of Carbery, Governor of Jamaica and President of the Royal Society ( b. 1639 )

* date unknown – Thomas Ellwood, English religious writer ( b. 1639 )

* October 2 – Ivan Mazepa, Hetman of Ukraine ( b. 1639 )

* August 20 – Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet, English playwright ( b. 1639 )

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

* August 4 – Jean-Michel-d ' Astorg Aubarede, Vicar Capitular of Pamiers ( b. 1639 )

* May 4 – John Nevison, English highwayman ( b. 1639 )

* July 8 – Juan García de Salazar, choral composer ( b. 1639 )

* October 3 – Alessandro Melani, composer ( b. 1639

; ( 3 ) Elizabeth ( b. 1618 ), living in 1639 ; ( 4 ) Daughter 4, unnamed ; ( 5 ) Mary ( b. 1620?

He proceeded M.A. in 1632, and B.D. in 1639, being made fellow in 1632.

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

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

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

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

In 1639 Abergavenny received a charter of incorporation under the title of bailiff and burgesses.

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.

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.

In time Étienne was back in good graces with the cardinal, and in 1639 had been appointed the king's commissioner of taxes in the city of Rouen — a city whose tax records, thanks to uprisings, were in utter chaos.

A watercolor painting of Havana Bay, c. 1639.

It was constructed in 1639 to provide water power for mills. In Russia, the Volga-Baltic Waterway, a nationwide canal system connecting the Baltic and Caspian seas via the Neva and Volga rivers, was opened in 1718.

Early map of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico, circa 1639.

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

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

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

* St. Martin de Porres ( d. 1639 )

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

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