1639 in England

Events from the year 1639 in England.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Charles I
• Sir John Coke

• 26 January –
  Covenanters in the First Bishops' War,^[1] opening the Wars of the Three Kingdoms
  .
• 27 February – Charles denounces the Covenanters.[1]
• 21 April – William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele and Robert Greville, 2nd Baron Brooke imprisoned for refusing to fight against the Covenanters.^[1]
• 25 April – Charles issues a proclamation promising to pardon rebels.^[1]
• 14 May – Charles issues a further proclamation promising to settle the Covenanters' grievances and not to invade Scotland.^[1]
• 19 June – Treaty of Berwick signed between the King and the Covenanters, ending the First Bishops' War.^[1]
• 15 September – Battle of the Downs between the Dutch and Spanish in English waters.^[1]
• 24 November (4 December in
  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 –
  1603
  )
• 7 November –
  1560
  )
• possible –
  1586
  )

References