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| Years: 1636 1637 1638 - 1639 - 1640 1641 1642 | |
| Decades: 1600s 1610s 1620s - 1630s - 1640s 1650s 1660s | |
| Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century | |
Events
- January 14 - Connecticut's first constitution, the "Fundamental Orders," is adopted.
- 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
Births
- June 21 - Increase Mather, American minister (d. 1723)
- December 22 - Jean Racine, French dramatist (d. 1699)
- Yair Bacharach, German rabbi (d. 1702)
Deaths
- August 20 - Martin Opitz von Boberfeld, German poet (b. 1597)af:1639
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