1636 in England

Events from the year 1636 in England.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Charles I
• Secretary of State – Sir John Coke

Events

• 3 March – A "great charter" to the University of Oxford establishes the Oxford University Press as the second of the privileged presses.
• 8 September – New College founded at the English colony of Massachusetts; later renamed 'Harvard'.
• 9 October – John Hampden refuses to pay ship money after a third writ is issued.
• Unknown – Completion of excavation of Old Bedford River (begun in 1630).
• Unknown – Roger Williams founds the new English colony Rhode Island in North America
• Unknown – Construction concluded on the Jacobean mansion Crewe Hall

Births

• 29 June – Thomas Hyde, orientalist (died 1703)
• 29 September – Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1715)
• 7 October – Edward Wetenhall, bishop (died 1713)
• 1 December – Elizabeth Capell, Countess of Essex, noblewoman (died 1718)
• 27 December – John Dormer, born Huddleston, Jesuit priest (died 1700)

Deaths

• 20 March – Thomas Puckering, politician (born 1592)
• 18 April – Julius Caesar, judge (born c. 1557)
• 29 May – William Pitt, politician (born 1559)
• 15 August – Robert Hitcham, lawyer and politician (born 1572)

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