What Happened in 1639

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Virginia orders half of its tobacco crop destroyed to support plunging prices and to avoid an economic catastrophe, the 1st colony to order the destruction of crops

January 6, 1639


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Who Died in 1639

  • Jan 20 Mustafa I 'Mustafa the Mad', Ottoman sultan (1617-18, 22-23), dies at 38 or 39
  • Jan 23 Francisco Maldonado da Silva Solis, Peruvian poet, burned at stake
  • Jan 24 [George] Jörg Jenatsch, Swiss Grisons leader, assassinated by a man disguised as a bear at about 42
  • Mar 22 Thomas Carew, English poet and diplomat (The Rapture), dies
  • May 21 Tommaso Campanella, Italian theologian, philosopher and poet, dies at 70

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