* 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.

These were men of letters, had attended Oxford or Cambridge, and communicated with intellectuals all over Europe ; and in 1636 they founded the school that shortly became Harvard College.

In New England and at Harvard College ( founded 1636 ), Ramus and his followers dominated, as Perry Miller shows in The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century ( Harvard University Press, 1939 ).

In truth, the statue is not modeled after John Harvard, he did not found the university, and the founding was in 1636.

In the 1930s, Morison wrote a series of books on the history of Harvard University and New England, including Builders of the Bay Colony: A Gallery of Our Intellectual Ancestors ( 1930 ), The Founding of Harvard College ( 1935 ), Harvard College in the Seventeenth Century ( 1936 ), Three Centuries of Harvard: 1636 – 1936 ( 1936 ), and The Puritan Pronaos ( 1936 ).

* Three Centuries of Harvard, 1636 – 1936.

In 1636, the colonial legislature of Massachusetts founded Harvard College, the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States.

The college is one of the oldest in the United States, after Harvard ( 1636 ), the College of William and Mary ( 1693 ), St. John's College in Annapolis ( 1696 ), Yale University ( 1701 ), and the University of Pennsylvania ( 1740 ).

Harvard College was founded in 1636 as a Puritan / Congregationalist institution and trained ministers for many years.

# Harvard College ( established 1636 )

While Harvard traces its origins to 1636, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences only came into existence in the late nineteenth century.

Although Harvard College traces its origins to 1636, the precursors of GSAS only date back to the 1870s.

The University was established by the Order of Preachers, also known as the Dominican Order, on April 28, 1611 and is much older than the United States Harvard University ( 1636 ).

* John Harvard, after whom Harvard University is named, married in 1636 Ann Sadler, daughter of the Rev John Sadler, Vicar of Ringmer 1626-1640.

The first school in America, Boston Latin School ( 1635 ), and the first college in America, Harvard College ( 1636 ), were founded shortly after Boston's European settlement.

According to contemporary John Bargrave, in 1636 members of the Spanish faction of the College of Cardinals were so horrified by the conduct of Pope Urban VIII that they conspired to have him arrested and imprisoned ( or killed ) so that they could replace him with a new pope ; namely Laudivio Zacchia.

Harvey returned to Italy in 1636, dining at the English College, Rome, as a guest of the Jesuits there, in October 1636.

Framlingham Castle was given to Pembroke College as a philanthropic gesture in 1636, after which the internal buildings were taken down to make way for the construction of a poorhouse within the site.

He was in Geneva with James Zouche in the summer of 1635 and subsequently travelled to Rome where on 14 January 1636 he dined at the Jesuit-run English College with Zouche and perhaps Henry Neville or his elder brother Richard ..

He studied at Trinity College, Dublin in 1630 and at Gray's Inn in 1636.

He matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford in September 1634 and graduated in 1636.

A brief return to England was followed by a second European journey ; in 1636 he sailed via Livorno ( Leghorn ) to Rome, dining with Ent on 5 October at the English College, Rome ; he also met William Harvey, who was entertained at the College on the 12th, Gasparo Berti, Lucas Holstenius and Athanasius Kircher.

He was educated at Kirton and Beverley grammar school and was a student of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge in 1636.

In 1632 he went up to Gloucester Hall, Oxford ( which later became Worcester College ); he received his BA from Oriel in 1635, and his BMed and DMed from Gloucester Hall in 1636 and 1643 respectively.

He matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, on 20 May 1636, describing himself as age 17, and the son of Robert Phelps of Salisbury.

He attended Magdalen College, Oxford and graduated from there with a Master of Arts degree on 31 August 1636.

Settled in 1635 by people from Roxbury and Watertown, Dedham was incorporated in 1636.

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 ).

Although Cardinal Richelieu, the powerful chief minister of France, had previously mauled the Protestants, he joined this war on their side in 1636 because it was in the raison d ' état ( national interest ).

* Ruth was born about 1636 and died in Braintree on October 12, 1674.

In 1636, Injo who was king of the Korean Joseon Dynasty had to kneel three times on the ground and touch his head nine times on the ground ( 三拜九叩頭禮 ), to show his allegiance to Huang Taiji who was the first Emperor of the Qing Dynasty.

Seventh-day Sabbatarianism was advocated in England by John Traske ( 1586 – 1636 ) and Thomas Brabourne, whose ideas gave rise to the Seventh-day Baptists.

In 1579, Ieyasu's wife, and his eldest son, Matsudaira Nobuyasu, were accused by Nobunaga of conspiring with Takeda Katsuyori to assassinate Nobunaga, whose daughter Tokuhime ( 1559 – 1636 ) was married to Nobuyasu.

Utrecht University was founded on March 26, 1636.

Year 1636 ( MDCXXXVI ) was a leap year starting on Tuesday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

The city was damaged in a tremendous flood in May 1636.

Narragansett Indians receiving Roger WilliamsIn the spring of 1636 Williams and a number of his followers from Salem began a settlement on land that Williams had bought from Massasoit, only to be told by Plymouth that he was still within their land grant.

The establishment of Rhode Island was so threatening to its neighbors that they tried for the next hundred years to extinguish the “ lively experiment ” in religious freedom that had begun in 1636.

( The colony which became Rhode Island passed a series of laws, the first in 1636, which prohibited religious persecution including against non-Trinitarians ; Rhode Island was also the first government to separate church and state.

As Joseon was striving to rebuild itself after the war, it suffered from the invasions by the Manchu in 1627 and 1636.

Subsequently, Korea was invaded by the Manchus in 1627 and again in 1636, after which the Joseon dynasty recognized the suzerainty of the Qing Empire.

Similarly Mersenne ( 1636 – 7 ) wrote that it can be sounded as softly as a recorder and can play a scale beginning on any note as ut: the point of these observations was that most other woodwind instruments of the period ( shawms, flutes etc.

The Mauritshuis was named after Prince John Maurice and was built between 1636 and 1641, the period when he was the governor of Dutch Brazil.

Upon the recommendation of King Philip IV of Spain, Jansen was consecrated as Bishop of Ypres in 1636.

* Bhai Gurdas ( 1551 – 25 August 1636 ) who was a Punjabi Sikh writer, historian, missionary, and religious figure.