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* 1636 – A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes the first college in what would become the United States, today known as Harvard University.
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* 1636 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony against the Pequot Indians.
The name of a settlement was recorded after St. Adalbert's death in 997 AD as urbs Gyddanyzc and later was written as Kdanzk ( 1148 ), Gdanzc ( 1188 ), Danceke ( 1228 ), Gdansk ( 1236, 1454, 1468, 1484, 1590 ), Danzc ( 1263 ), Danczk ( 1311, 1399, 1410, 1414 – 1438 ), Danczik ( 1399, 1410, 1414 ), Danczig ( 1414 ), Gdąnsk ( 1636 ).
* Barbara Sophie ( 16 November 1584 – 13 February 1636 ), married John Frederick, Duke of Württemberg
At this time a Buddhist priest by the name of Kenjun ( 1547 – 1636 ), who lived in northern Kyūshū, began to compose for the koto, calling the style " tsukushi goto ".
* Morss, L. R., Edelstein, N. M., Fuger, J., The chemistry of the actinide and transactinide element, 3, ( 2006 ), 1630 – 1636
* 1636 – The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock.
While in the Netherlands he changed his address frequently, living among other places in Dordrecht ( 1628 ), Franeker ( 1629 ), Amsterdam ( 1629 – 30 ), Leiden ( 1630 ), Amsterdam ( 1630 – 32 ), Deventer ( 1632 – 34 ), Amsterdam ( 1634 – 35 ), Utrecht ( 1635 – 36 ), Leiden ( 1636 ), Egmond ( 1636 – 38 ), Santpoort ( 1638 – 1640 ), Leiden ( 1640 – 41 ), Endegeest ( a castle near Oegstgeest ) ( 1641 – 43 ), and finally for an extended time in Egmond-Binnen ( 1643 – 49 ).
1636 and Great
These were brought together in Oxford's " Great Charter " in 1636, which gave the university the right to print " all manner of books.
His paternal immigrant ancestor Major General Robert Sedgwick arrived in 1636 in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, as part of the Great Migration.
The work was completed by John Webb in 1636, but this theatre was destroyed by the Great Fire ( 1666 ).
He was First Lord of the Admiralty from 1635 to 1636 and also established his claim in right of his mother to the hereditary office of Lord Great Chamberlain of England.
Prince Jerzy Ossoliński ( 1595 – 1650 ) was a Polish nobleman ( szlachcic ), Crown Court Treasurer from 1632, governor ( voivode ) of Sandomierz from 1636, Reichsfürst ( Imperial Prince ) since 1634, Crown Deputy Chancellor from 1639, Great Crown Chancellor from 1643, sheriff ( starost ) of Bydgoszcz ( 1633 ), Lubomel ( 1639 ), Puck and Bolim ( 1647 ), magnate, politician and diplomat.
Alexander Mavrocordatos (; 1636 – 1709 ) was a member of the Greek Mavrocordatos family, a doctor of philosophy and medicine of the University of Bologna, and dragoman to Sultan Mehmed IV in 1673 — notably employed in negotiations with the Habsburg Monarchy during the Great Turkish War.
1636 and General
Militia companies were formed with the first English settlement at Jamestown in 1607, but the first militia regiments were organized by the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony on 13 December 1636.
When the commission expired in 1636 and the Connecticut Colony was established, the legislature was established as the " General Corte ", consisting of six magistrates along with three-member " committees " representing each of the three towns.
General Granville Elliott ( 1713-1759 ) spent much time and effort trying to prove that Richard Eliot had married Catherine Killigrew ( 1618-1689 ), and had a child George Elliott born around 1636.
In 1636 Sadová was part of the Smiřice lordship acquired by the Imperial General Lieutenant Matthias Gallas, who thereby reaped the awards for his conspiration against Generalissimo Albrecht von Wallenstein.
The House of Representatives has its basis in the earliest incarnation of the General Assembly, the " General Corte " established in 1636 whose membership was divided between six generally-elected magistrates ( the predecessor of the Connecticut Senate ) and three-member " committees " representing each of the three towns of the Connecticut Colony ( Hartford, Wethersfield, and Windsor ).
The Senate has its basis in the earliest incarnation of the General Assembly, the " General Corte " established in 1636 whose membership was divided between at least six generally-elected magistrates ( the predecessor of the Senate ) and three-member " committees " representing each of the towns of the Connecticut Colony ( the predecessors of the House of Representatives ).
He was one of the town's Deputies to the Massachusetts Bay General Court from 1635 to 1636, and was also a selectman from 1635 to 1637, attending a selectmen's meeting for the last time in January 1638 as his tenure in Boston was coming to an end.
1636 and Court
The Mars gallicus did little to help Jansen's rather persecuted theological friends in France, but it reversed Madrid's wrath with Jansen ; in 1636 he was appointed bishop of Ypres ( Ieper ) in West Flanders by the Pope and the Spanish Court.
" Beaumont's comedy was performed at Court by Queen Henrietta's Men on 28 February 1636 ( new style ).
1636 and Massachusetts
In 1636, Roger Williams, after being banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his religious views, settled at the tip of Narragansett Bay, on land granted to him by the Narragansett and Pequot tribes.
By 1636, the English from Newtown ( now Cambridge, Massachusetts ) settled on the north side of the Little River.
Originally, it would be home to a number of early leaders of the colony, including original Massachusetts Bay Colony treasurer William Pynchon, who left Roxbury in 1636 with nearly one third its men to found Springfield, Massachusetts on far less rocky and more arable soil.
" Nathaniel Ward, an assistant pastor in town from 1634 to 1636, wrote the first code of laws for Massachusetts and later published the religious / political work, The Simple Cobbler of Aggawam in America in England.
Anne Hutchinson, born Anne Marbury ( 1591 – 1643 ), was a Puritan woman, spiritual adviser, mother of 15, and important participant in the Antinomian Controversy that shook the infant Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1636 to 1638.
On or shortly after 21 October 1636, magistrate John Winthrop gave the first warning of a problem that would consume him and the leadership of the Massachusetts Bay Colony for much of the next two years.
It was established at Providence in 1636 by English clergyman Roger Williams and a small band of followers who had left the repressive atmosphere of the Massachusetts Bay Colony to seek freedom of worship.
In 1636, the colonial legislature of Massachusetts founded Harvard College, the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States.
An expedition from the Boston area arrived in 1636 led by Captain John Endicott, and the island initially became part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which in 1658 sold the island to a group of men headed up by Endicott, who had led the 1636 expedition.
Thomas Hooker, a prominent Puritan minister, and Governor John Haynes of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who led 100 people to present day Hartford in 1636, are often considered the founders of the Connecticut colony.
Expelled from Massachusetts in the winter in 1636, former Puritan leader Roger Williams issued an impassioned plea for freedom of conscience.
Haynes, while making arrangements to follow Hooker, continued to be involved in Massachusetts through 1636, serving as an assistant and as colonel of one of the colony's militia regiments.
His sister, Elizabeth St John, married Reverend Samuel Whiting and immigrated to Boston, Massachusetts in 1636.
Cutler was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, a descendant of Robert Cutler who settled there prior to October 28, 1636.
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