Events from the year1639 inEngland.

• Monarch –Charles I
• Secretary of State –Sir John Coke

• 26 January –King Charles I raises (with difficulty) an army and begins to march north to fight theScottishCovenanters in theFirst Bishops' War,^[1] opening theWars of the Three Kingdoms.
• 27 February – Charles denounces the Covenanters.^[1]
• 21 April –William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele andRobert 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 theFirst Bishops' War.^[1]
• 15 September –Battle of the Downs between theDutch andSpanish in English waters.^[1]
• 24 November (4 December inGregorian calendar) – Lancashire astronomersJeremiah Horrocks andWilliam Crabtree are the first and only scientific observers of atransit of Venus, predicted by Horrocks.

• 7 March –Charles Stewart, 3rd Duke of Richmond (died1672)
• c. April –Martin Lister, naturalist and physician (died1712)
• 8 July –Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester (died1660)
• 29 September –Lord William Russell, politician (executed1683)

• January –Shackerley Marmion, dramatist (born1603)
• 7 November –Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour, politician (born c.1560)
• possible –John Ford, dramatist and poet (born1586)

• 1639 in England
• Years of the 17th century in England

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