1636 in England
Events from the year 1636 in England.
Incumbents
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.
- 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
- 29 September – Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury
- 7 October – Edward Wetenhall, bishop
- 1 December – Elizabeth Capell, Countess of Essex, noblewoman
- 27 December – John Dormer, born Huddleston, Jesuit priest
Deaths
- 20 March – Thomas Puckering, politician
- 18 April – Julius Caesar, judge
- 29 May – William Pitt, politician
- 15 August – Robert Hitcham, lawyer and politician