1636 in England

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.
 * 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)