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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

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 to work as galley rowers.
March 26 - Utrecht University is founded in The Netherlands.

August 15 - The Spanish besiege Corbie, France.
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.

The first American ancestor of John 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.