1636
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This article is about the year 1636.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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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 by topic: | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1636 MDCXXXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2389 |
| Armenian calendar | 1085 ԹՎ ՌՁԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6386 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -208–-207 |
| 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 | 1692–1693 |
| - 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) |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 10 days |
| Korean calendar | 3969 |
| Minguo calendar | 276 before ROC 民前276年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2179 |
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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.
[edit] Events
[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, 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.
- 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.
[edit] Date unknown
- Emperor Fasilides of Ethiopia founds the city of Gondar, which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries.
- The first American ancestor of John Adams, Henry 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
- April 7 – Gregório de Mattos, Brazilian poet (d. 1696)
- May 6 – Laura Mancini, French court beauty (d. 1657)
- August 25 – Louis Victor de Rochechouart de Mortemart, French military man, brother of Madame de Montespan (d.1688)
- 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 – Princess Henriette Adelaide of Savoy (d. 1676)
[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 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
