History
1636
General
Population: 544 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Corneille Le Cid, Philip Massinger (comedy),
Art includes Rembrandt "Portrait of an 83-year-old woman", Van Dyck "Charles I on Horseback", Velazquez "Prince Baltasar Carlos as a Hunter"
Music includes Marin Mersenne publishes descriptions of musical instruments, Schutz creates collection of motets
- Religion: Peter Heylyn writes "The History of the Sabbath"
George Sandys writes paraphrase of the psalms
- Deaths: Sculptor Hans Reichelt, King Ferdinand II of Sweden
Asia
- Ceylon: (Sri Lanka) Dutch settle in Ceylon
- China: Manchus proclaim the Ch'ing Dynasty at Mukden (Qing)
- India: Mughals of India begin to expand into the Deccan area
Europe
- General: 30 years war loses steam
Battle of Wittstock – Swedes defeat Saxons
Prince Octavio Piccolomini invades France and is repulsed
- England: Bishop John Juxon made Lord Treasurer
Resistance to Ship Money taxes leads to English Civil War
Gaol Fever (Jail Fever or typhus) and Plague outbreaks
- France: Italian Fedeli Company performs Commedia dell'arte at French court
Tea appears for first time in Paris
- German States: Emperor Ferdinand II has his son Archduke Ferdinand elected Ferdinand III King of the Romans
- Holy Roman Empire: Austrian troops retire from Burgundy
- Russia: Russians reach Pacific
- Sweden: Death of King Ferdinand II of Sweden, King Ferdinand III rules
East
- Connecticut: Thomas Hooker and company arrive and found Hartford
- Massachusetts: Roger Williams banished
John Harvard founds first American university at Cambridge - Nathaniel Eaton president
- Rhode Island: Providence established by exiled Welsh Puritan Roger Williams