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# 1639

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- January 14 - Connecticut's first constitution, the "Fundamental Orders," is adopted.
- January 23 - Francisco Maldonado de Silva, Peruvian Jewish poet, executed by burning at the stake
- March 13 - Harvard University is named for a clergyman named John Harvard.
- November 24 - Jeremiah Horrocks observes the transit of Venus.

- Charles I starts the first of the Bishops Wars against Scotland.
- The Casiquiare canal, a river forming a natural canal between the Amazon River and Orinoco River basins, is first encountered by Europeans.
- The Barbados House of Assembly meets for the first time.
- The first printing press in North America is started in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- Russian Cossacks advance over Urals to Pacific, to Okhotsk.
- Montreal first settled.

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