1636
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| Centuries: | 16th century - 17th century - 18th century |
| Decades: | 1600s 1610s 1620s - 1630s - 1640s 1650s 1660s |
| Years: | 1633 1634 1635 - 1636 - 1637 1638 1639 |
| 1636 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works |
Year 1636 (MDCXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
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[edit] Events of 1636
[edit] January - June
- February 24 - King Christian of Denmark gives an order that all beggars that are able to work must be sent to Brinholmen Island, to build ships or to work as galley rowers.
- March 26 - Utrecht University is founded in The Netherlands.
[edit] July - December
- August 15 - The Spanish besiege Corbie, France.
- August 15 - The covenant of the Town of Dedham, Massachusetts is first signed.
- September 8 - A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes Harvard College as the second college founded in North America.
- December 13 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony against the Pequot Indians. This organization is recognized today as the founding of the United States National Guard.
[edit] Undated
- The first American ancestor of John Adams emigrates to Massachusetts.
- Pierre Corneille's play, Le Cid, is first performed.
- Manchus occupy the Liaoning region in north China, select Shenyang (Mukden) as their capital, and proclaim the new Qing Dynasty ("pure").
- The Shogun forbids Japanese to travel abroad and those abroad from returning home.
- In the American colonies, Roger Williams (theologian) founds Rhode Island.
- Thirty Years' War: French intervention starts.
- The first synagogue of the New World, Kahal Zur Israel Synagogue, is founded in Recife by the Dutch.
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1636 MDCXXXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2389 |
| Armenian calendar | 1085 ԹՎ ՌՁԵ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -208 – -207 |
| Berber calendar | 2586 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2180 |
| Burmese calendar | 998 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7144 – 7145 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙亥年十一月廿四日 (4272/4332-11-24) — to —
丙子年十二月初五日(4273/4333-12-5) |
| Coptic calendar | 1352 – 1353 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1628 – 1629 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5396 – 5397 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1691 – 1692 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1558 – 1559 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4737 – 4738 |
| Holocene calendar | 11636 |
| Iranian calendar | 1014 – 1015 |
| Islamic calendar | 1045 – 1046 |
| Japanese calendar | Kan'ei 13 (寛永13年) |
| Korean calendar | 3969 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2179 |
- April 7 - Gregório de Mattos, Brazilian poet (d. 1696)
- September 29 - Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1715)
- October 31 - Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria (d. 1679)
- November 1 - Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, poet and critic (d. 1711)
- November 6 - Henriette Adelaide of Savoy (d. 1676)
- date unknown - Laura Mancini, French court beauty (d. 1657)
- See also Category:1636 births.
[edit] Deaths
- January 11 - Dodo Knyphausen, Swedish military leader (b. 1583)
- January 26 - Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul, French diplomat (b. 1552)
- February 22 - Sanctorius, physician (b. 1561)
- April 18 - Julius Caesar, English judge (b. c.1557)
- June 13 - George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly, Scottish politician (b. 1562)
- August 25 - Bhai Gurdas, Sikh religious figure (b. 1551)
- September 17 - Stefano Maderno, sculptor (b. 1576)
- October 19 - Marcin Kazanowski, Polish military leader (b. c.1564)
- December 9 - Fabian Birkowski, Polish writer (b. 1566)
- December 10 - Randal MacDonnell, 1st Earl of Antrim, Irish leader
- See also Category:1636 deaths.
