1636: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

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 William founds Rhode Island

• Father Jacques Marquette, French missionary and explorer