1836

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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 3 Deaths 3.1 January–June 3.2 July–December 4 Citations

Events of 1836

January–March

• January 5 – Davy Crockett arrives in Texas.
• January 12 – HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin reaches Sydney.
• January 18 – Dade County, Florida, is formed.
• February 23 – The Alamo is surrounded by Santa Anna's army, in a 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 is performed for the first time in Madrid, Spain.
  • A Convention of delegates from 57 Texas communities gathers in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, to deliberate independence from Mexico.
• March 6 – The Battle of the Alamo ends; 182 Texans are slaughtered by about 5,000 Mexicans. (Numbers from The World Book Encyclopedia, (C) 1970, U.S.A., Library of Congress catalog card number 70-79247)
• March 17 – Texas abolishes the slave trade.

• March 27 – U.S. Survey of the Coast returned to Treasury Department; renamed U.S. Coastal Survey.

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 is 9-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker; she later gives birth to a son named Quanah, who becomes the last chief of the Comanche.
• June 15 – Arkansas is the 25th state admitted into the United States of America.

July–September

• July 13 – The 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 – The 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 the Synagogue of Rabbi Judah Hasid in Jerusalem.
• September 5 – Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.

• September 11 – Rio-Grandense Republic is proclaimed in South America.

October–December

• October 2 – Charles Darwin returns to Britain aboard the 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 25 – Construction begins on the Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad in North Carolina. Due to a lack of support in Raleigh, the route is revised to run from Wilmington to the Petersburg Railroad in Weldon.^[1]
• December 4 – Whig Party holds its first national convention, in Harrisburg, PA.
• December 7 – U.S. presidential election, 1836: Martin Van Buren defeats William Henry Harrison.
• December 15 – The U.S. Patent Office (USPTO) burns in Washington, DC.
• December 26 – The colony of South Australia is officially proclaimed (now celebrated in the state of South Australia as Proclamation Day).
• December 27 – An avalanche at Lewes in Sussex, England kills 8 of 15 people buried when a row of cottages is engulfed in snow.
• December 28 – Spain recognizes the independence of Mexico.
• December 30 – In Saint Petersburg, the Lehman Theater is caught on fire; 800 people died.

Undated

• The first printed literature in Assyrian Neo-Aramaic is produced by Justin Perkins, an American Presbyterian missionary.
• The New Board brokerage group is founded in New York City.
• Parliament passes a 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 6-year tour of 50 tribes in the Dakota Territory.
• Chatsworth Head found near Tamassos on Cyprus.

Births

1836 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1836 MDCCCXXXVI
Ab urbe condita	2589
Armenian calendar	1285 ԹՎ ՌՄՁԵ
Bahá'í calendar	-8 – -7
Bengali calendar	1243
Berber calendar	2786
Buddhist calendar	2380
Burmese calendar	1198
Byzantine calendar	7344 – 7345
Chinese calendar	乙未年十一月十三日 (4472/4532-11-13) — to — 丙申年十一月廿四日 (4473/4533-11-24)
Coptic calendar	1552 – 1553
Ethiopian calendar	1828 – 1829
Hebrew calendar	5596 – 5597
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1892 – 1893
- 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)
Korean calendar	4169
Thai solar calendar	2379

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)
  • 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)
• May 23 – Touch the Clouds, native American chieftain of Teton Lakota Sioux.

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. 1909)
• September 26 – Thomas Crapper, plumber, inventor (d. 1910)
• 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)

Deaths

January–June

• January 1 – Bernhard Meyer, German physician and ornithologist (b. 1767)
• January 11 – John Molson, Canadian entrepreneur (b. 1763)
• January 30 – Betsy Ross, Made the first American flag (b. 1752)
• January 31 – John Cheyne (physician), British physician, surgeon and author (b. 1777)
• March 6 (at the Alamo)
  • Davy Crockett, American frontiersman, Congressman and soldier (b. 1786)
  • William Barret Travis Texan revolutionary (b. 1809)
  • 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 10 – André-Marie Ampère, physicist (b. 1775)
• June 28 – James Madison, 4th President of the United States (b. 1751)

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)

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