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 1636 - 1640 (~ 4 years)
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| 1 | 1636 | - 1636: America - The Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony established Harvard College (New College), the first college in the Americas.
- 1636: England - Tulip mania begins and ceases the following year in a precursor of the 2000 dot-com crash
- 1636: England - Mild outbreak of Black Death
- 1636: England - W. Gascoigne invents the micrometer.
- 1636: CA - French crown grants Gulf of Maine and Bay of Fundy to d'Aulnay; La Tour gets Nova Scotia peninsula.
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| 2 | 1637 | - 1637: Connecticut, USA - Pequot War 1637-1638
- 1637: England - Charles I quarrels with Scotland re religion. He tries to force the English Book of Common Prayer on Scots
- 1637: France - Supposedly, Cardinal Richelieu 'created' the table knife when he had the points rounded on all knives to be used at his table. Presumably so no one could stab him.
- 1637: CA - David Kirke is named first governor of Newfoundland.
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| 4 | 1639 | - 1639: England - First Bishops' War between Charles I and the Scottish Church; ends with Pacification of Dunse
- 1639: CA - The Jesuit mission of Sainte-Marie among the Hurons is established at Wendake.
- 1639: NL - Admiraal Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp verslaat de Spaanse vloot bij Duins.
- 1639: US - Dutch governor-general William Kieft adopts policy of exterminating the hostile Indians and taxing the rest. Dutch soldiers aid Mohawk allies to carry out Pavonia massacre, where Dutch soldiers played kickball with the heads of the women and children refugees they had killed.
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