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Year 1636 ( MDCXXXVI ) was a Leap Year Starting On Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Year Starting On Friday of the 10-day slower Julian Calendar ).

EVENTS OF 1636

January - June

February 24 - King Christian Of Denmark gives an order that all Beggar s that are able to work must be sent to Brinholmen Island to build ships or to work as Galley rowers.

March 26 - Utrecht University is founded in The Netherlands .

July - December

August 15 - Siege of Corbie .

August 15 - 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 Harvard College as the first college founded in the Americas .

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 .

Undated

Harvard University is established by order of the General Court of Massachusetts.

The first American ancestor of John Adams emigrates to Massachusetts .

First performance of Pierre Corneille 's play, '' Le Cid '', is held.

Manchuria n later Jin dynasty was renamed to Qing Dynasty .

Shogun forbids Japanese to travel abroad and those abroad from returning home.

In the American colonies, Roger Williams (theologian) founds Rhode Island .

BIRTHS

April 7 - Gregório De Mattos , Brazilian poet (d. 1696 )

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 - Henriette Adelaide Of Savoy (d. 1676 )

''date unknown'' - Laura Mancini , French court beauty (d. 1657 )

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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 (born 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 19 - Marcin Kazanowski , Polish military leader (born c. 1564 )

December 9 - Fabian Birkowski , Polish writer (b. 1566 )

December 10 - Randal MacDonnell, 1st Earl Of Antrim , Irish leader

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