1836

Year '1836' ('MDCCCXXXVI') was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents

Events of 1836

January - March

April - June

July - September

October - December

Undated

Births

January - June

July - December

Unknown dates

Deaths

January - June

July - December

Unknown dates

Events of 1836

January - March

★ January 5 - Davy Crockett arrives in Texas.

★ January 12 - Battle of Wetumka, Florida.


★ January 12 - HMS ''Beagle'' with Charles Darwin reaches Sydney, Australia.

★ February 4 - Dade County, Florida is formed.

★ February 23 - The Alamo is surrounded by Santa Anna's army, in 13-day ordeal.

★ February 25 - Samuel Colt receives an American patent for the Colt revolver, the first revolving barrel multishot firearm.

★ March 1 - Antonio García Gutiérrez's play ''El Trovador'' played for the first time.

★ March 1 - A Convention of delegates from 57 Texas communities convenes in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, to deliberate independence from Mexico.


★ March 2 - Declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico.

★ March 6 - Battle of the Alamo ends: 189 Texans against about 1600 Mexicans.

★ March 17 - Texas abolishes slave trade.

★ March 23 - The coin press is invented by Franklin Beale.

April - June

★ April 20 - The Territory of Wisconsin is created.

★ April 21 - Battle of San Jacinto: Mexican forces under General Santa Anna are defeated at San Jacinto, Texas.

★ April 22 - Texas Revolution: A day after the Battle of San Jacinto forces under Texas General Sam Houston capture Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.

★ May 7 - The settlement of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico is elevated to the royal status of villa by the government of Spain.


★ May 15 - Francis Baily, during an eclipse of the sun, observes the phenomenon named after him as Baily's beads.

★ May 19 - Fort Parker massacre: Among those captured by Native Americans was 9-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker. She would later give birth to a son named Quanah who would become the last chief of the Comanche.

★ June 15 - Arkansas is the 25th state admitted in the United States of America

July - September

★ July 13 - First numbered U.S. patent #1 (after filing 9,957 unnumbered patents) is granted, for locomotive wheels.


★ July 20 - Charles Darwin climbs Green Hill on Ascension.

★ July 21 - The first Canadian railroad opens, between Laprairie and St. John, Quebec.

★ July 27 - Adelaide, South Australia is founded.

★ July 30 - The first English newspaper is published in Hawaii.

★ August 17 - HMS ''Beagle'' with Charles Darwin leaves South America, headed back to England.

★ August 30 - The city of Houston, Texas is founded.

★ September 1 - Rebuilding begins at Synagogue of Rabbi Judah Hasid in Jerusalem.

★ September 5 - Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.

October - December

★ October 2 - Charles Darwin returns to England aboard HMS ''Beagle'' with biological data he will later use to develop his theory of evolution.

★ October 22 - Sam Houston is inaugurated as first elected President of the Republic of Texas.

★ October 24 - A. Phillips patents the match.

★ October 31 - Bristol riot - see 1836 in the United Kingdom.

★ December 4 - Whig Party holds its first national convention, in Harrisburg, PA.

★ December 7 - U.S. presidential election: Martin Van Buren defeats William Henry Harrison.

★ December 15 - The US Patent Office (USPTO) burns in Washington, DC.

★ December 27 - Avalanche at Lewes Sussex, England kills 8 of 15 buried.

★ December 28 - Proclamation of the colony of South Australia, now celebrated in the state of South Australia as Proclamation Day.

★ December 28 - Spain recognizes independence of Mexico.

★ December 30 - The Lehman theater in St Petersburg catches fire: hundreds die.

Undated

★ Boers in South Africa begin the Great Trek across the Orange River.

★ First printed literature in Assyrian Neo-Aramaic is produced by Justin Perkins, an American Presbyterian missionary.

★ New Board brokerage group is founded in New York City.

★ Trichomonas vaginalis was first discovered.

★ Parliament passes law making census data available to the public - a boon for genealogists and historians.

★ James Peter Allaire's company, the Howell Works, is at its peak.

Births

January - June

★ January 2 - Mendele Moykher Sforim, Russian Yiddish writer (d. 1917)

★ January 10 - Charles Phillip Ingalls, Pioneer father of author Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. June 8, 1902)

★ January 14 - Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (d. 1904)

★ January 27 - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer (d. 1895)

★ February 16 - Robert Halpin, Irish mariner and cable layer (d. 1894)

★ February 18 - Ramakrishna Paramhansa, Bengali religious leader (d. 1886)

★ February 21 - Léo Delibes, French composer (d. 1891)

★ February 24 - Winslow Homer, American painter. 1910)

★ March 12 - Isabella Beeton, British cook and expert on household management (d. 1865)

★ March 20 - Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American politician (d. 1886)

★ March 20 - Sir Edward Poynter, French-born artist (d. 1919)

★ April 27 - Major Charles Bendire, U.S. Army captain and ornithologist (d. 1897)

★ May 27 - Jay Gould, American financier (d. 1892)

★ May 28 - Alexander Mitscherlich, German chemist (d. 1918)

★ May 31 - Jules Chéret, French printmaker (d. 1932)

July - December

★ July 8 - Joseph Chamberlain, British politician (d. 1914)

★ July 9 - Camille de Renesse, Belgian Count (d. 1904)

★ August 13 - Bishop Nikolai of Japan, Russian Orthodox priest (d. 1912)

★ August 25 - Bret Harte, American writer (d. 1902)

★ September 7 - Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1908)

★ September 11 - Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author (d. 1870)

★ September 17 - William Jackson Palmer, founder of Colorado Springs, Colorado (d. 1836)

★ October 15 - James Tissot, French artist (d. 1902)

★ November 11 - Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American poet and novelist (d. 1907)

Unknown dates

★ (none)
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Deaths

January - June

★ January 7 - John Molson, Canadian entrepreneur (b. 1763)

★ March 6 - Davy Crockett, American frontiersman and soldier (b. 1786)

★ March 6 - William Barret Travis Texan revolutionary (b. 1809)

★ March 6 - James Bowie Texan revolutionary (b. 1796)

★ March 27 - James Fannin, Texas Revolutionary (b. 1804)

★ April 29 - Simon Kenton, Frontiersman; American Revolutionary Militia General (b. 1755)

★ June 28 - James Madison, 4th President of the United States (b. 1751)

July - December

★ August 21 - Claude-Louis Navier, French engineer and physicists (b. 1785)

★ 26 August - Jeremiah Colegrove, Continental Army officer (b. 1758)

★ September 5 - Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (b. 1790)

★ September 12 - Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German writer (b. 1801)

★ September 14 - Aaron Burr, Vice President of the United States (b. 1756)

★ September 17 - Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (b. 1748)

★ November 5 - Karel Hynek Mácha, Czech poet (b. 1810)

★ November 6 - King Charles X of France (b. 1757)

★ November 16 - Christian Hendrik Persoon, Dutch mycologist (b. 1761)

★ December 27 - Stephen F. Austin, American pioneer (b. 1793)

Unknown dates

★ Bernhard Meyer, German physician and ornithologist (b. 1767)
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