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1639
Johan Banér
Johan Banér and the Swedes win the battle of Chemnitz .
Octavio Piccolomini
Octavio Piccolomini and the Imperialists win the
Battle of Diedenhofen .
Jeremiah Horrocks measuring the transit of Venus.  JW Lavender, 1903
Jeremiah Horrocks succeeds for
the first time in measuring and observing a passage through Venus .
1639 in other calendars
Armenian calendar 1087/88 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar 1631/32 (September 11-12)
Bengali solar calendar 1044/45 (beginning of April 14th or 15th)
Buddhist calendar 2182/83 (southern Buddhism); 2181/82 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar 72nd (73rd) cycle

Year of the Earth- Rabbit 己卯 ( at the beginning of the year Earth-Tiger 戊寅)

Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) 1001/02 (turn of the year April)
Dangun era (Korea) 3972/73 (October 2/3)
Iranian calendar 1017/18 (around March 21)
Islamic calendar 1048/49 (May 4th / 5th)
Jewish calendar 5399/5400 (September 28-29)
Coptic calendar 1355/56 (September 11-12)
Malayalam calendar 814/815
Seleucid era Babylon: 1949/50 (turn of the year April)

Syria: 1950/51 (turn of the year October)

Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) 1695/96 (April)

Events

Politics and world events

Europe

The Battle of Diedenhofen (Thionville) , Pieter Snayers
The Dutch fleet before the battle of the Downs, contemporary painting

Asia

The Ottoman Empire 1639

America and the Caribbean

economy

science and technology

William Crabtree observed the transit of Venus in 1639.

Culture

Reconstruction of the horns in the National Museum of Denmark
The Fortune Teller , New York, Metropolitan Museum

Historical maps and views

Born

First half of the year

Eleonore d'Olbreuse, Duchess of Braunschweig-Lüneburg

Second half of the year

Exact date of birth unknown

Died

First half of the year

Second half of the year

Martin Opitz

Exact date of death unknown

Web links

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