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1639 in England

Events from the year 1639 in England.

Incumbents

Monarch – Charles I
Secretary of State – Sir John Coke

Events

26 January – King Charles I raises (with difficulty) an army and begins to march north to fight the Scottish Covenanters in the First Bishops' War, opening the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
27 February – Charles denounces the Covenanters.
21 April – William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele and Robert Greville, 2nd Baron Brooke imprisoned for refusing to fight against the Covenanters.
25 April – Charles issues a proclamation promising to pardon rebels.
14 May – Charles issues a further proclamation promising to settle the Covenanters' grievances and not to invade Scotland.
19 June – Treaty of Berwick signed between the King and the Covenanters, ending the First Bishops' War.
15 September – Battle of the Downs between the Dutch and Spanish in English waters.
24 November (4 December in Gregorian calendar) – 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 – Charles Stewart, 3rd Duke of Richmond (died 1672)
c. April – Martin Lister, naturalist and physician (died 1712)
8 July – Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester (died 1660)
29 September – Lord William Russell, politician (executed 1683)

Deaths

January – Shackerley Marmion, dramatist (born 1603)
7 November – Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour, politician (born c. 1560)
possible – John Ford, dramatist and poet (born 1586)

References

"''1639'', British Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Protectorate 1638-60".

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