1636

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Year 1636 (MDCXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

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 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.
• A "great charter" to the University of Oxford establishes the Oxford University Press as the second of the privileged presses in England.^[1]

Births

• January 1 – Jacques Cassagne, French clergyman (d. 1679)
• January 12 – Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, French painter (d. 1699)
• January 20 – Maximilian I, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (d. 1689)
• February 6 – Heiman Dullaart, Dutch painter (d. 1684)
• February 12 – Hermann Witsius, Dutch theologian (d. 1708)
• February 16 – Shubael Dummer, Preacher (d. 1692)
• March 8 – Robert Kerr, 1st Marquess of Lothian (d. 1703)
• March 13 – Ulrik Huber, Dutch philosopher (d. 1694)
• March 25 – Henric Piccardt, Dutch lawyer (d. 1712)
• April 7 – Gregório de Mattos, Brazilian poet (d. 1696)
• April 10 – Balthasar Kindermann, German poet (d. 1706)
• April 13 – Hendrik van Rheede, Dutch botanist (d. 1691)
• April 29 – Esaias Reusner, German lutenist and composer (d. 1679)
• May 6 – Laura Mancini, French court beauty (d. 1657)
• May 17 – Edward Colman, English Catholic courtier under Charles II (d. 1678)
• May 22 – Ferdinand Albert I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1687)
• May 27 – Thormodus Torfæus, Icelandic historian (d. 1719)
• June 3 – John Hale (Beverly minister) (d. 1700)
• June 15 – Sir Thomas Slingsby, 2nd Baronet, English Baronet (d. 1688)
• June 16 – Charles de La Fosse, French painter (d. 1716)
• June 21 – Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon, French noble (d. 1721)
• June 29 – Thomas Hyde, English orientalist (d. 1703)
• July 2 – Daniel Speer, German composer and writer (d. 1707)
• July 12 – Count Ferdinand Edzard of East Frisia, German nobleman (d. 1668)
• July 31 – Josias II, Count of Waldeck-Wildungen (d. 1669)
• August 25 – Louis Victor de Rochechouart de Mortemart, French military man, brother of Madame de Montespan (d. 1688)
• September 5 – Ignace-Gaston Pardies, French physicist (d. 1673)
• September 24 – Francesco Vaccaro, Italian painter (d. 1675)
• September 28 – Sophia Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Prussian royal consort (d. 1689)
• September 29 – Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1715)
• October 15 – John Strangways (died 1676), 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 (d. 1679)
• November 1 – Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, poet and critic (d. 1711)
• November 2 – Edward Colston, British politician (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 30 – Adriaen van de Velde, Dutch painter (d. 1672)
• December 1 – Elizabeth Capell, Countess of Essex (d. 1718)
• December 26 – Justine Siegemund, German writer (d. 1705)

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

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