Historical Events Mar 13 Cambridge College, Massachusetts, renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard Famous Deaths Mar 22 Thomas Carew, English poet and diplomat (The Rapture), dies Feb 1639 History by Year May 1639 What Happened in 1639 Great Sacrifice of a Plague-Ridden VillageApril 28, 1639 Transit of VenusNovember 24, 1639
