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1636 1637 1638 - 1639 - 1640 1641 1642

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Centuries:
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Events

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 3 - The early settlement of Taunton, Massachusetts was incorporated as a town.
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

February 6 - Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (d. 1691)
June 21 - Increase Mather, American minister (d. 1723)
September 17 - Hans Herr, Swiss-born Mennonite bishop (d. 1725)
September 29 - Lord William Russell, English politician (d. 1683)
December 22 - Jean Racine, French dramatist (d. 1699)
Yair Bacharach, German rabbi (d. 1702)

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Deaths

January 20 - Mustafa I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1592)
January 24 - Georg Jenatsch, Swiss politician (b. 1596)
May 21 - Tommaso Campanella, Italian theologian and poet (b. 1568)
June 1 - Melchior Franck, German composer
July 18 - Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, German general (b. 1604)
August 4 - Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Mexican dramatist
August 20 - Martin Opitz von Boberfeld, German poet (b. 1597)
September 20 - Johannes Meursius, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1579)
October 28 - Stefano Landi, Italian composer (b. 1587)
November 7 - Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour, English politician
November 26 - John Spottiswoode, Scottish historian (b. 1565)

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