1636

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Millennium: 2nd millennium
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  • 17th century
  • 18th century
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Years:
  • 1633
  • 1634
  • 1635
  • 1636
  • 1637
  • 1638
  • 1639
1636 by topic
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  • Works
1636 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1636
MDCXXXVI
Ab urbe condita2389
Armenian calendar1085
ԹՎ ՌՁԵ
Assyrian calendar6386
Balinese saka calendar1557–1558
Bengali calendar1043
Berber calendar2586
English Regnal year11 Cha. 1 – 12 Cha. 1
Buddhist calendar2180
Burmese calendar998
Byzantine calendar7144–7145
Chinese calendar乙亥年 (Wood Pig)
4332 or 4272
    — to —
丙子年 (Fire Rat)
4333 or 4273
Coptic calendar1352–1353
Discordian calendar2802
Ethiopian calendar1628–1629
Hebrew calendar5396–5397
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1692–1693
 - Shaka Samvat1557–1558
 - Kali Yuga4736–4737
Holocene calendar11636
Igbo calendar636–637
Iranian calendar1014–1015
Islamic calendar1045–1046
Japanese calendarKan'ei 13
(寛永１３年)
Javanese calendar1557–1558
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3969
Minguo calendar276 before ROC
民前276年
Nanakshahi calendar168
Thai solar calendar2178–2179
Tibetan calendar阴木猪年
(female Wood-Pig)
1762 or 1381 or 609
    — to —
阳火鼠年
(male Fire-Rat)
1763 or 1382 or 610
October 4: Battle of Wittstock

1636 (MDCXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday 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. As of the start of 1636, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events[]

January–June[]

  • March 5 (February 24 Old Style) – 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 13 (March 3 Old Style) – 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 Dutch Republic.
  • April 30 – Eighty Years' War: The nine-month Siege of Schenkenschans ends, when forces of the Dutch Republic recapture the strategically important fort from the Spanish.
  • May 14 – William Pynchon and his men establish the settlement of Springfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony (they will deed the land later that year, on July 15th).

July–December[]

  • August 15
    • The Spanish besiege Corbie, France.
  • August 25 (August 15 Old Style) – The covenant of the Town of Dedham, Massachusetts Bay Colony is first signed.
  • September 18 (September 8 Old Style) – 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.[2]
  • October 4 (September 24 Old Style) – Thirty Years' War – Battle of Wittstock: A Swedish-allied army defeats a combined Imperial-Saxon army.
  • December 23 (December 13 Old Style) – 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.[3]
  • Manchus occupy the Liaoning region in north China, select Shenyang (Mukden) as their capital, and proclaim the new Qing dynasty (pure).
  • The shōgun 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[]

Laura Mancini
Gregório de Matos
Justine Siegemund

January–March[]

April–June[]

July–September[]

October–December[]

date unknown[]

  • Mary Rowlandson, American author and captive during King Philip's War (d. 1711)
  • George Etherege, English playwright (d. 1692)

Deaths[]

Date Masamune
Johannes Saeckma

References[]

  1. ^ "A Short History of Oxford University Press". Oxford University Press. 2012. Retrieved July 30, 2013.
  2. ^ Morison, Samuel (1964). Three centuries of Harvard, 1636-1926. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. p. 5. ISBN 9780674888913.
  3. ^ "Historical Events for Year 1636 | OnThisDay.com". Historyorb.com. Retrieved June 24, 2016.
  4. ^ Rogal, Samuel (1991). Calendar of literary facts : a daily and yearly guide to noteworthy events in world literature from 1450 to the present. Detroit: Gale Research. p. 26. ISBN 9780810329430.
  5. ^ Sutton, Peter (1994). The golden age of Dutch landscape painting. Madrid: Fundación Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza. p. 274. ISBN 9788488474162.
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