1636

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).

Events of 1636

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.

July - December

• August 15 - Spanish siege of 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 first college founded in the Americas.
• 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 Navy.

Undated

• Harvard University is established by order of the General Court of Massachusetts.
• The first American ancestor of John Adams emigrates to Massachusetts.
• First performance of Pierre Corneille's play, Le Cid, is held.
• Manchurian later Jin dynasty was renamed to Qing Dynasty.
• Shogun forbids Japanese to travel abroad and those abroad from returning home.
• In the American colonies, Roger Williams (theologian) founds Rhode Island.
• French intervention starts.

Births

• 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.

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 (born 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 (born 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.af:1636

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