1636 in England
List of events
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Incumbents
Events
- 3 March â A "great charter" to the University of Oxford establishes the Oxford University Press as the second of the privileged presses.[1]
- 8 September â New College founded at the English colony of Massachusetts; later renamed 'Harvard'.
- 9 October â John Hampden refuses to pay ship money after a third writ is issued.
- Unknown â Completion of excavation of Old Bedford River (begun in 1630).
- Unknown â Roger Williams founds the new English colony Rhode Island in North America
- Unknown â Construction concluded on the Jacobean mansion Crewe Hall
Births
- 29 June â Thomas Hyde, orientalist (died 1703)
- 29 September â Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1715)
- 7 October â Edward Wetenhall, bishop (died 1713)
- 1 December â Elizabeth Capell, Countess of Essex, noblewoman (died 1718)
- 27 December â John Dormer, born Huddleston, Jesuit priest (died 1700)
Deaths
- 20 March â Thomas Puckering, politician (born 1592)
- 18 April â Julius Caesar, judge (born c. 1557)
- 29 May â William Pitt, politician (born 1559)
- 15 August â Robert Hitcham, lawyer and politician (born 1572)