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3 unusual facts about 1636


1636: The Saxon Uprising

The Swedish chancellor Axel Oxenstierna seizes this opportunity to try to reestablish the power of the nobility in the USE.

When Bavaria invades the Upper Palatinate the only soldiers available to meet them are the Thuringia-Franconia National Guard and one battalion of USE forces.

Lewis Bayly

The Hungarian translation was by the puritan pastor and theologian Pál Medgyesi, first published in Debrecen in 1636.


1585 in poetry

Daniel Schwenter (died 1636), German Orientalist, mathematician, inventor, poet, and librarian

Abkhazi

According to the genealogical treatise by Prince Ioann of Georgia (1768-1830), the ancestors of the family fled the Islamicization of Abkhazia to the eastern Georgian kingdom of Kakheti were they were elevated, in 1636, to the princely dignity and enfeoffed by the king Teimuraz I with the estate at Kardenakhi, which had hitherto been in possession of the extinct line of the Vachnadze family.

All Saints Church, Bakewell

It is used for, amongst other things, concerts by Bakewell Choral Society and the annual Commemoration service of Lady Manners School when they staff and pupils give thanks to Grace, Lady Manners, for founding their school in 1636.

Ancient Diocese of Grasse

Bishops of Grasse worthy of mention are: Cardinal Agostino Trivulzio (1537-1648); the poet Antoine Godeau (1636–53), one of the most celebrated habitués of the Hôtel de Rambouillet, where he was nicknamed "Julia's dwarf" on account of his small stature.

Antonio Mira de Amescua

Antonio Mira de Amescua (1578? – 1636?), Spanish dramatist, was born at Guadix (Granada) about 1578.

Ba Ban Chinese Music Society of New York

The ensemble performs on "silk and bamboo" (sizhu) instruments—a classical instrumental grouping dating from the Qing Dynasty (1636-1911) that includes various dizi (bamboo flutes), sheng (mouth organ), pipa (lute), zhongruan (alto lute), guzheng (zither), huqin (fiddles), and yangqin (hammered dulcimer).

Bernard de Nogaret de La Valette d'Épernon

He fought in Picardy (1636), in Guyenne, and finally against the Spaniards, and repressed the Peasants' Revolt (Révolte des Croquants) in 1637.

Cansino family

After an interval of three years Aaron's brother, Jacob Cansino, received the appointment (1636), and served until his death in 1666.

Cassiano dal Pozzo

After the visit to Rome in 1636 of the English physician George Ent, (later a Fellow of the Royal Society) a correspondence ensued, in letters of extraordinary interest.

Catherine Killigrew

Her great-grandson, Granville Elliott, spent much time and trouble trying to prove that Catherine had legally married Richard Eliot, the wayward son of Sir John Eliot, and had a son and legal heir George Elliott (Granville's grandfather) by him around 1636.

Charles Berkeley

Charles Berkeley, 1st Earl of Falmouth (bef. 1636–1665), English politician and courtier, son of the above

Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier

Having served under Bernard of Saxe-Weimar in Germany in 1634, he returned to the French service in 1636, and fought in the Rhenish campaigns of the following years.

Codex Laudianus

It eventually came into the possession of William Laud, who donated to the Bodleian Library in Oxford in 1636, where it is located now (Cat. number: Laud. Gr. 35 1397, I,8).

Darby Field

Of Irish ancestry, if not born in Ireland, he was in Boston, Massachusetts, by 1636 and settled in Durham, New Hampshire, by 1638, where he ran a ferry from what is now called Durham Point to the town of Newington, across Little Bay.

Dorothy Quincy Homestead

It was originally established by Edmund Quincy in 1686 as an extensive property upon which were built multiple homes.

Esteban de Aguilar y Zúñiga

While very young, at twenty-two, he wrote Corona de predicadores (Crown of preachers), a San Esteban sermon which was later printed (Madrid: Maria de Quinones, 1636).

Francis Norris, 1st Earl of Berkshire

His illegitimate son Francis was knighted and appointed High Sheriff of Oxfordshire in 1636.

Georg Marcgrave

Born in Liebstadt in the Electorate of Saxony, Marcgrave studied botany, astronomy, mathematics, and medicine in Germany and Switzerland until 1636 when he journeyed to Leiden in the Netherlands.

George Melville, 1st Earl of Melville

George Melville, 1st Earl of Melville (1636 – 20 May 1707) was a Scots aristocrat and statesman during the reigns of William and Mary.

Griffin Higgs

with the support of Archibishop William Laud, he was appointated precentor of St David's on 21 May 1631 (Le Neve, Fasti, ed. Hardy, i. 316), instituted vicar of Cliffe, Kent, about 1636 (Hasted, Kent, iv. 32), and in 1638 made dean of Lichfield (Le Neve, i. 563), ‘the cathedral of which,’ says Wood, ‘he adorned to his great charge.’ He was also chaplain in ordinary to the king.

Guy Fawkes Night

By 1636, under the leadership of the Arminian Archbishop of Canterbury William Laud, the English church was trying to use 5 November to denounce all seditious practices, and not just popery.

Habsburg Spain

In the "année de Corbie", 1636, Spanish forces advanced as far south as Amiens and Corbie, threatening Paris and quite nearly ending the war on their terms.

Hendrik van der Borcht II

Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, passing through Frankfurt, became his patron in 1636 when he was only 22, taking him along on a Grand Tour of Italy.

Henry E. Chambers

Maria Charles was a daughter of Caleb and Sarah Charles of Lovell in Oxford County, Maine, and a descendat of John Charles, pioneer settler in 1636 of Charlestown, Massachusetts.

Henry Jermyn

Henry Jermyn, 1st Baron Dover (c. 1636–1708), nephew of the former, second son of (a later) Sir Thomas Jermyn and third and last Baron Jermyn of St Edmundsbury

John Meldrum

In 1636, Meldrum was granted by letters-patent from the king licence to continue and renew the lighthouses erected by Charles I on the North and South Forelands.

John, Count of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg

John Charles August was a son of Count George William of Leiningen-Dagsburg (born 8 March 1636 in Heidesheim am Rhein; died 18 July 1672 in Oberstein) and his wife Countess Anna Elisabeth von Daun-Falkenstein (born: 1 January 1636; died: 4 June 1685 at Schloss Broich).

Jonathan L. Foote

He is a direct descendant of Elizabeth Deming and Nathaniel Foote, who settled Wethersfield, Connecticut, in 1636.

Julien Perrichon

He was a lute player for Henry IV of France, and famous enough to be mentioned by Marin Mersenne in Harmonie universelle (1636) as one of the finest musicians of the preceding age.

Lacuzon

He gained his first military experience when the French invaded Burgundy in 1636, harrying the French troops from the castles of Montaigu and Saint-Laurent-la-Roche, and devastating the frontier districts of Bresse and Bugey with fire and sword (1640-1642).

Maria van Eicken

Maria van Eicken (1571 in Brussels – 21 April 1636 in Porta Angelica Monastery, Flaumbach Valley, near Treis-Karden) was the wife of the Margrave Edward Fortunatus of Baden-Baden.

Melchor Portocarrero, 3rd Count of Monclova

Don Melchor Portocarrero y Lasso de la Vega, 3rd conde de Monclova (1636, Madrid—September 15, 1705, Lima) was viceroy of New Spain from November 30, 1686 to November 19, 1688 and viceroy of Peru from August 1689 to 1705.

Minnesota National Guard

The idea of a militia, or body of citizen Soldiers as distinct from career soldiers, was borrowed from England and dates in this country from 1636, when three militia regiments were organized for the common defense in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Philippine Coast Guard

On June 1999, the first helicopter, a MBB Bo 105CB was acquired from PADC and commissioned with the tail number PCG–1636.

Pollen baronets

The family descended from Edward Pollen (d. 1636), a London merchant originally from Lincolnshire.

Radisson, Wisconsin

The village is located within the Town of Radisson and was named in honor of the early French explorer, Pierre-Esprit Radisson (c.1636-1710).

Richard Eliot

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.

Roman Catholicism in Ethiopia

Due largely to the behaviour of the Portuguese Jesuit Afonso Mendes, whom Pope Urban VIII appointed as Patriarch of Ethiopia in 1622, Emperor Fasilides expelled the Patriarch and the European missionaries, who included Jerónimo Lobo, from the country in 1636; these contacts, which had seemed destined for success under the previous Emperor, led instead to the complete closure of Ethiopia to further contact with Rome.

Sadová

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.

Scioptric ball

Daniel Schwenter (1585-1636), professor of mathematics and oriental languages, developed the scioptic ball in 1636.

Shah Abdur Razzaq

Shah Abdur Razzaq (1636–1724) of Bansa, who not only won the recognition of his contemporaries but who exerted after his death one of the most powerful influences in Awadh spiritual history.

Sir Bourchier Wrey, 4th Baronet

Wrey was the son of Sir Chichester Wrey, second baronet, by Anne, widow of Lionel Cranfield, Earl of Middlesex, and daughter and coheiress of Edward Bourchier, Fourth Earl of Bath (d. 1636).

Smithfield, Rhode Island

The area comprising modern-day Smithfield was first settled in 1636 by several British colonists, including John Steere as a farming community and named after Smithfield, London.

Sparrenberg Castle

In 1636 the Swedes and Hessians besieged the Spanish for nearly one year before they had to hand over the fortress in 1637.

The Lady of Pleasure

It was performed by Queen Henrietta's Men at the Cockpit Theatre in Drury Lane, in the final winter before the theatres suffered a long closure due to bubonic plague (May 1636 to October 1637) and Shirley himself left London for Dublin (1637).

The Quadrangle

The Connecticut Valley Historical Museum offers exhibits detailing the history of the Pioneer Valley from 1636 up to the present.

Walter Aston, 1st Lord Aston of Forfar

Lord Forfar returned as envoy to Spain in 1636, and although the dispute over the restoration of the Palatinate to the new Elector Palatine (the Winter King having died) remained intractable, Lord Forfar did assistance to twenty-seven lawsuits involving English merchants in Spanish courts.

Willibald Pirckheimer

Most of Pirckheimer's own library, famous in its day, was sold by another Imhoff descendent to the Earl of Arundel in 1636.


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