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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 1 Events of 1836 1.1 January - March 1.2 April - June 1.3 July - September 1.4 October - December 1.5 Undated 2 Births 2.1 January - June 2.2 July - December 2.3 Unknown dates 3 Deaths 3.1 January - June 3.2 July - December 3.3 Unknown dates

[edit] Events of 1836

[edit] 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.
• January 18 - 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 performed for the first time at Madrid.
• 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.

[edit] 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

[edit] 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 Island.
• 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.
• George Catlin ends his six year tour of 50 tribes in the Dakota Territory.

[edit] Births

1836 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1836 MDCCCXXXVI
Ab urbe condita	2589
Armenian calendar	1285 ԹՎ ՌՄՁԵ
Bahá'í calendar	-8 – -7
Berber calendar	2786
Buddhist calendar	2380
Burmese calendar	1198
Chinese calendar	4472/4532-11-13 (乙未年十一月十三日) — to — 4473/4533-11-24 (丙申年十一月廿四日)
Coptic calendar	1552 – 1553
Ethiopian calendar	1828 – 1829
Hebrew calendar	5596 – 5597
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1891 – 1892
- Shaka Samvat	1758 – 1759
- Kali Yuga	4937 – 4938
Holocene calendar	11836
Iranian calendar	1214 – 1215
Islamic calendar	1251 – 1252
Japanese calendar	Tenpō 7 (天保7年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2496 (皇紀2496年)
Julian calendar	1881
Korean calendar	4169
Thai solar calendar	2379
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[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)
• November 18 - W. S. Gilbert, British playwright and librettist best known for his collaborations with Arthur Sullivan (d. 1911)

[edit] Unknown dates

• (none)

See also Category: 1836 births.

[edit] Deaths

[edit] January - June

• January 11 - 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 16 - Nathaniel Bowditch, American Mathematician (b. 1773)
• 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)

[edit] July - December

• August 21 - Claude-Louis Navier, French engineer and physicist (b. 1785)
• August 26 - Jeremiah Colegrove, Continental Army officer (b. 1758)
• September 5 - Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (b. 1790)
• September 12 - Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German playwright (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)

[edit] Unknown dates

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

See also Category: 1836 deaths.

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