Editing 1636 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 1]] &ndash; [[Anthony van Diemen]] takes office as [[Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies]] (now Indonesia), and will serve until his death in 1645.
* [[January 18]] &ndash; ''[[The Duke's Mistress]]'', the last play by [[James Shirley]], is given its first performance.
* [[February 21]] &ndash; [[Al Walid ben Zidan]], [[List of rulers of Morocco|Sultan of Morocco]], is assassinated by French renegades.
* [[February 26]] &ndash; Nimi a Lukeni a Nzenze a Ntumba is installed as [[Álvaro VI of Kongo|King Alvaro VI]] of [[Kingdom of Kongo|Kongo]], in the area now occupied by the African nation of [[Angola]], and rules until his death on February 22, 1641.
* [[March 5]] (February 24 [[Old Style]]) &ndash; King [[Christian IV of Denmark and Norway]] gives an order, that all [[beggar]]s that are able to work must be sent to Brinholmen, to build ships or to work as [[galley]] rowers.
* [[March 13]] (March 3 [[Old Style]]) &ndash; A "great charter" to the [[University of Oxford]] establishes the [[Oxford University Press]], as the second of the [[privileged presses]] in England.<ref>{{cite web|title=A Short History of Oxford University Press|url=http://global.oup.com/about/oup_history/?AB=B&cc=gb|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2012|access-date=2013-07-30}}</ref>
* [[March 26]] &ndash; [[Utrecht University]] is founded in the [[Dutch Republic]].