1636 - Definition and Overview

Events

• February 24 - King Christian of Denmark gives an order that all beggars that are able to work must be sent to Brinholmen Island to build ships or as galley rowers
• March 26 - Utrecht University founded in The Netherlands.
• September 8 - A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes Harvard College as the first college founded in the Americas.
• The first American ancestor of John Adams emigrates to Massachusetts.
• Dedham, Massachusetts is incorporated.
• First performance of Pierre Corneille's play, Le Cid
• Manchurian Later Jin dynasty was renamed to Qing Dynasty.
• Shogun forbids Japanese to travel abroad and those abroad from returning home
• Roger Williams (theologian) founds Rhode Island

Births

• September 29 - Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury
• November 1 - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, French writer
• Father Jacques Marquette, French missionary and explorer

Deaths

• June 13 - George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly
• October 19 - Marcin Kazanowski, Polish military leader