1639 in England
List of events
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Incumbents
Events
- 26 January â King Charles I raises (with difficulty) an army and begins to march north to fight the Scottish Covenanters in the First Bishops' War,[1] opening the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
- 27 February â Charles denounces the Covenanters.[1]
- 21 April â William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele and Robert Greville, 2nd Baron Brooke imprisoned for refusing to fight against the Covenanters.[1]
- 25 April â Charles issues a proclamation promising to pardon rebels.[1]
- 14 May â Charles issues a further proclamation promising to settle the Covenanters' grievances and not to invade Scotland.[1]
- 19 June â Treaty of Berwick signed between the King and the Covenanters, ending the First Bishops' War.[1]
- 15 September â Battle of the Downs between the Dutch and Spanish in English waters.[1]
- 24 November (4 December in Gregorian calendar) â Lancashire astronomers Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree are the first and only scientific observers of a transit of Venus, predicted by Horrocks.
Births
- 7 March â Charles Stewart, 3rd Duke of Richmond (died 1672)
- c. April â Martin Lister, naturalist and physician (died 1712)
- 8 July â Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester (died 1660)
- 29 September â Lord William Russell, politician (executed 1683)
Deaths
- January â Shackerley Marmion, dramatist (born 1603)
- 7 November â Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour, politician (born c. 1560)
- possible â John Ford, dramatist and poet (born 1586)