1636

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1600s 1610s 1620s – 1630s – 1640s 1650s 1660s
Years:	1633 1634 1635 – 1636 – 1637 1638 1639

1636 by topic:
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Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science
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Births - Deaths
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Establishments - Disestablishments
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Works

1636 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	1636 MDCXXXVI
Ab urbe condita	2389
Armenian calendar	1085 ԹՎ ՌՁԵ
Assyrian calendar	6386
Bengali calendar	1043
Berber calendar	2586
English Regnal year	11 Cha. 1 – 12 Cha. 1
Buddhist calendar	2180
Burmese calendar	998
Byzantine calendar	7144–7145
Chinese calendar	乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 4332 or 4272 — to — 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 4333 or 4273
Coptic calendar	1352–1353
Discordian calendar	2802
Ethiopian calendar	1628–1629
Hebrew calendar	5396–5397
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1692–1693
- Shaka Samvat	1558–1559
- Kali Yuga	4737–4738
Holocene calendar	11636
Igbo calendar	636–637
Iranian calendar	1014–1015
Islamic calendar	1045–1046
Japanese calendar	Kan'ei 13 (寛永１３年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3969
Minguo calendar	276 before ROC 民前276年
Thai solar calendar	2178–2179

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1636 (MDCXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (dominical letter FE) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday (dominical letter CB) of the Julian calendar, the 1636th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 636th year of the 2nd millennium, the 36th year of the 17th century, and the 7th year of the 1630s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1636 is 10 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929.

Events

January–June

February 24 – King Christian of Denmark gives an order that all beggars that are able to work must be sent to Brinholmen, to build ships or to work as galley rowers.
March 3 – A "great charter" to the University of Oxford establishes the Oxford University Press as the second of the privileged presses in England.^[1]
March 26 – Utrecht University is founded in the Netherlands.

July–December

August 15
- The Spanish besiege Corbie, France.
- 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 New College (Harvard University) as the first 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.

Date unknown

Thirty Years' War: French intervention starts.
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.
Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar, which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries.
In the American colonies, Roger Williams (theologian) founds Rhode Island.
The first American ancestor of John Adams, Henry Adams, emigrates to Massachusetts.
The first synagogue of the New World, Kahal Zur Israel Synagogue, is founded in Recife by the Dutch.

Births

Gregório de Matos born 7 April

Laura Mancini born 6 May

Justine Siegemund born 26 December

October–December

October 6 – George Frederick, Count of Erbach-Breuberg, Count of Erbach and Breuberg (1653) (d. 1653)
October 15 – John Strangways, English politician (d. 1676)
October 23 – Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp, queen consort of King Charles X of Sweden (d. 1715)
October 31 – Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria, Wittelsbach ruler of Bavaria and an elector of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1679)
November 1 – Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, poet and critic (d. 1711)
November 2 – Edward Colston, Bristol-born English slave trader (d. 1721)
November 6
- Princess Catherine Beatrice of Savoy, Daughter of the Duke of Savoy (d. 1637)
- Princess Henriette Adelaide of Savoy, wife of the Ferdinand Maria (d. 1676)
November 11 – Yan Ruoqu, Chinese scholar (d. 1704)
November 14 – Pierre du Cambout de Coislin, French prelate (d. 1706)
November 30
- Johannes Fabritius, Dutch painter (d. 1693)
- Adriaen van de Velde, Dutch painter (d. 1672)
December 1 – Elizabeth Capell, Countess of Essex, British countess (d. 1718)
December 26 – Justine Siegemund, German writer (d. 1705)
December 27 – William Whitelock, English gentleman and member of parliament (d. 1717)

date unknown

Mary Rowlandson, American author and captive during King Philip's War: (d. 1711)

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 9 – Antoine de Paule, 56th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (b. c.1551)
June 13 – George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly, Scottish politician (b. 1562)
July – Elijah Loans, rabbi and kabbalist (b. 1555)
August 25 – Bhai Gurdas, Sikh religious figure (b. 1551)
September 17 – Stefano Maderno, sculptor (b. 1576)
October 11 – Johann Albrecht Adelgrief, German man who claimed to be a prophet and was executed for witchcraft.
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

References

↑ "A Short History of Oxford University Press". Oxford University Press. 2012. Retrieved 2013-07-30.

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