1636 in England

1636 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.A Short History of Oxford University Press http://global.oup.com/about/oup_history/?AB=B&cc=gb Oxford University Press 2012 2013-07-30 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) References 1636 Category:Years of the 17th century in England England