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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 National Guard.

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.

Manchus occupy the Liaoning region in north China, select Shenyang (Mukden) as their capital and proclaim a new dynasty Qing ("pure")

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) ť See also .

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 ť See also .

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