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.
• 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