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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[link]

January–June[link]

• 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[link]

• 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[link]

• 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.

Births[link]

• 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)

Deaths[link]

• 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

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