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1836 (MDCCCXXXVI) was a leap year starting on
Friday of the Gregorian calendar and
a leap year
starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1836th year of
the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the
836th year of the 2nd millennium,
the 36th year of the 19th century,
and the 7th year of the 1830s decade. As of
the start of 1836, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian
calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
March 2: Texas. Contents ·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit] January–March[edit] ·
January 1 – Queen Maria II of Portugal marries Prince Ferdinand
Augustus Francis Anthony of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. ·
January 5 – Davy Crockett arrives in Texas. ·
HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin on board, reaches Sydney. ·
Will County,
Illinois, is formed. ·
January 16 – Kane County,
Illinois, is formed. ·
January 18 – Dade County, Florida,
is formed. ·
February 8 – London and
Greenwich Railway opens its first section, the first railway
in London, England.[1] ·
February 23 – Texas Revolution: The Battle of the Alamo begins,
with an American settler army surrounded by the Mexican Army, under Santa Anna. ·
February 25 – Samuel Colt receives a United
States 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. ·
Texas Revolution – Convention of 1836:
Delegates from many Texas communities
gather in Washington-on-the-Brazos,
Texas, to deliberate independence from Mexico. ·
March 2 – Texas Revolution – Convention of 1836:
The Texas
Declaration of Independence is signed by 60 delegates, and
the Republic of Texas is
declared.[2] ·
March 6 – Texas Revolution: The Battle of the Alamo ends;
182 Texan settler soldiers die in a struggle with approximately 5,000 Mexican
soldiers.[3]
March 6: Battle of the Alamo ·
March 11 – Sultan Mahmud II abolishes
the posts of Reis ül-Küttab and Kahya Bey, and establishes the Ottoman
ministries of Foreign Affairs and of the Interior in their place. ·
March 17 – Texas Revolution – Convention of 1836:
Delegates adopt the Constitution
of the Republic of Texas, modeled after the United States
Constitution. It allows slavery, requires free blacks to petition Congress to
live in the country, but prohibits import of slaves from anywhere but the
United States.[4] ·
March 27 ·
Texas Revolution – Goliad massacre: 342 Texan prisoners are
shot and killed, along with Texan General James Walker Fannin,
by Mexican troops in Goliad, near the Presidio La Bahía. ·
The United States Survey of the Coast is
returned to the U.S. Treasury
Department, and renamed the U.S.
Coastal Survey. ·
March 29 – Richard Wagner's opera Das Liebesverbot is
performed for the first time, in Magdeburg. ·
March 31 (dated April) – The first
monthly part of Charles Dickens's The Pickwick Papers ("The
Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club..., edited by Boz") is
published in London. April–June[edit] ·
April 20 – The Wisconsin Territory is
created; the first capital is Belmont. ·
April 21 – Texas Revolution – Battle of San
Jacinto: Mexican forces under General Antonio López
de Santa Anna are defeated at San Jacinto, Texas. ·
April 22 – Texas Revolution: Forces under Texas General Sam Houston capture Mexican
General Antonio López
de Santa Anna. ·
May 4 – The Ancient Order
of Hibernians, an Irish Catholic fraternal
organization, is founded in New York City. ·
May 7 – The settlement of Mayagüez, Puerto
Rico is elevated to the royal status of villa,
by the government of Spain. ·
May 14 – Texas Revolution: The Treaties of Velasco are
signed, between Mexican General Antonio López
de Santa Anna and the Republic of Texas,
but never ratified by the Mexican government.
April 21: Battle of San
Jacinto ·
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[edit] ·
July 13 – The first numbered U.S.
Patent 1 (after filing 9,957 unnumbered patents) is granted
to John Ruggles, for
improvements to railroad steam locomotive tires. ·
July 20 – Charles Darwin climbs Green Hill,
on Ascension Island. ·
July 21 – The Champlain
and St. Lawrence Railroad opens between St. John and La Prairie, Quebec,
the first steam-worked passenger railroad in British North
America. ·
July 27 – The settlement of Adelaide, South Australia, is founded. ·
July 30 – The first English-language
newspaper is published in Hawaii. ·
August 17 – The Marriage Act in
the United Kingdom establishes civil marriage and registration systems
that permit marriages in nonconformist chapels, and a Registrar General of
Births, Marriages, and Deaths.[5][6] ·
August 30 – The settlement of Houston, Texas is
founded. ·
September 1 – Rebuilding begins at
the Hurva Synagogue in Jerusalem. ·
September 5 – Sam Houston is elected as the
first president
of the Republic of Texas.
·
September 11 – The Riograndense Republic is proclaimed in South
America. October–December[edit] ·
October 2 – Charles Darwin returns to England
aboard HMS Beagle,
with biological data he will later use to develop his theory of evolution,
having left South America on August 17.
October 2: Darwin returns aboard HMS Beagle.
·
October 13 – Theodor Fliedner,
a Lutheran minister, and Friederike, his wife, open the Deaconess Home
and Hospital at Kaiserswerth,
Germany, as an institute to train women in nursing. ·
October 22 – Sam Houston is inaugurated
as first elected President
of the Republic of Texas. ·
October 24 – The earliest United
States patent for a phosphorus friction match is granted to Alonzo
Dwight Phillips, of Springfield,
Massachusetts. ·
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.[7] ·
November 28 – The University of London is
established by Royal Charter,
with University
College London and King's College
London named as the first affiliated colleges. ·
December 4 – The Whig Party
(United States) holds its first national convention, in Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania. ·
December 7 – United
States presidential election, 1836: Martin Van Buren defeats William Henry
Harrison, and three other Whig candidates. ·
December 15 – The United
States Patent Office burns in Washington, D.C. ·
December 26 – The Crown colony
of South Australia is officially proclaimed (now celebrated
in the state of South Australia as Proclamation Day). ·
December 27 – Lewes avalanche: An avalanche at Lewes in Sussex, England, kills eight of fifteen5
people buried, when a row of cottages is engulfed in snow. ·
December 28 – Spain recognizes the
independence of Mexico. ·
The Colony of South Australia is founded by
Captain John Hindmarsh. ·
December 30 – In Saint Petersburg, the Lehman Theater catches
fire, killing 800 people. Date unknown[edit] ·
The first printed literature in Assyrian Neo-Aramaic is
produced by Justin Perkins,
an American Presbyterian missionary in Persia. ·
The New Board brokerage group is founded in
New York City. ·
James Peter Allaire's
company, the Howell Works, is
at its peak. ·
Eugène Schneider and
his brother Adolphe Schneider purchase
a bankrupt ironworks near the town of Le Creusot, in
the Burgundy region of
France, and found the steelworks and engineering company Schneider Frères & Cie ·
George Catlin ends his 6-year tour of
50 tribes in the Dakota Territory. ·
Chatsworth Head is found near Tamassos, Cyprus.[8] Births[edit] January–June[edit] ·
January 2 – Mendele Mocher Sforim,
Russian Yiddish writer (d. 1917) ·
January 8 – Lawrence Alma-Tadema,
Dutch-English painter (d. 1912) ·
January 10 – Charles Phillip Ingalls, American pioneer father of author Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1902) ·
January 14 – Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (d. 1904) ·
January 24 – Signe Rink, Greenland-born Danish writer,
ethnologist (d. 1909) ·
January 27 – Leopold von
Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer for whom
masochism is named (d. 1895) ·
February 16 – Robert Halpin, Irish mariner, 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 (d. 1910) ·
March 2 – Henry Billings Brown, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States (d. 1913) ·
March 4 – Stuart Robson, American stage comedian
(d. 1903) ·
March 12 – Isabella Beeton,
British cook, expert on household management (d. 1865) ·
March 20 ·
Ferris Jacobs, Jr.,
American politician (d. 1886) ·
Sir Edward Poynter, French-born artist (d. 1919) ·
March 28 – Frederick Pabst, German-American brewer
(d. 1904) ·
April 27 – Major Charles Bendire,
U.S. Army captain, ornithologist (d. 1897) ·
May 23 – Touch the Clouds, Native American chieftain
(Teton Lakota Sioux) (d. 1905) ·
May 26 – Mélanie de Pourtalès, French salonniére, courtier (d. 1914) ·
May 27 – Jay Gould, American financier (d. 1892) ·
May 28 ·
Alexander
Mitscherlich, German chemist (d. 1918) ·
Friedrich Baumfelder, German composer, conductor, and
pianist (d. 1916) ·
May 31 – Jules Chéret,
French printmaker (d. 1932) ·
June 9 – Elizabeth
Garrett Anderson, English physician, suffragette (d. 1910) ·
June 16 – Wesley Merritt, American general (d. 1917) ·
June 28 – Lyman J. Gage, American financier (d. 1927) July–December[edit] ·
July 8 – Joseph Chamberlain,
British politician (d. 1914) ·
July 9 – Camille of Renesse-Breidbach, Belgian nobleman, entrepreneur
and author (d. 1904) ·
July 24 – Jan Gotlib Bloch,
Polish banker and warfare author (d. 1902) ·
August 5 – John T. Raymond, American actor (d. 1887) ·
August 13 – Bishop Nikolai of Japan, Russian Orthodox priest
(d. 1912) ·
August 25 – Bret Harte, American writer (d. 1902) ·
September 5 – Justiniano Borgoño, 37th Prime Minister of Peru
(d. 1921) ·
September 7 – Henry
Campbell-Bannerman, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1908) ·
September 10 – Joseph Wheeler, American general, politician
(d. 1906) ·
September 11 – Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author (d. 1870) ·
September 17 – William Jackson
Palmer, American founder of Colorado
Springs, Colorado (d. 1909) ·
September 22 – Fredrique Paijkull, Swedish educator, folk
high school pioneer (d. 1899) ·
September 26 – Thomas Crapper, English plumber, inventor
(d. 1910) ·
September 30 – Remigio Morales Bermúdez, Peruvian
politician, 56th President of Peru (d. 1894) ·
October 4 – Piet Cronjé, Boer
general (d. 1911) ·
October 5 – Enomoto Takeaki,
Japanese samurai, admiral (d. 1908) ·
October 6 – Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz,
German neuroanatomist (d. 1921) ·
October 15 – James Tissot, French artist (d. 1902) ·
October 27 – Thomas Gwyn Elger, English astronomer (d. 1897) ·
November 3 – Elena Arellano
Chamorro, Nicaraguan pioneer educator (d. 1911) ·
November 8 – Milton Bradley, American businessman,
inventor (d. 1911) ·
November 11 – Thomas Bailey
Aldrich, American poet, novelist (d. 1907) ·
W. S. Gilbert, British playwright,
librettist best known for his collaborations with Arthur Sullivan (d. 1911) ·
Máximo Gómez, Cuban military leader (d. 1905) ·
Ding Ruchang,
Chinese army officer, admiral (d. 1895) ·
November 22 – George Barham, English businessman, founder
of Express
County Milk Supply Company (d. 1913) ·
December 7 – Frank Manly Thorn,
American lawyer, politician, government official, essayist, journalist,
humorist, and inventor, sixth Superintendent of the United
States Coast and Geodetic Survey (d. 1907) ·
December 18 – Kawamura Sumiyoshi,
Japanese admiral (d. 1904) Date Unknown[edit] ·
Isidora Goyenechea,
international Chilean industrialist, miner (d. 1897) Deaths[edit] January–June[edit]
·
January 1 – Bernhard Meyer, German physician,
ornithologist (b. 1767) ·
January 11 – John Molson, Canadian entrepreneur (b. 1763) ·
January 21 – Ferenc Novák, Hungarian Slovene writer
(b. 1791) ·
January 30 – Betsy Ross, maker, designer of the first
American flag (b. 1752) ·
January 31 – John Cheyne,
British physician, surgeon and author (b. 1777) ·
February 1 – Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze, French chemist (b. 1758) ·
February 18 – Cornplanter, native American (Seneca)
chief (b. 1750) ·
February 21 – William Van Mildert,
last Prince Bishop of Durham, and
founder of Durham University (b. 1765) ·
March 6 (at the Alamo) ·
James Bowie, Texan revolutionary (b. 1796) ·
Davy Crockett, American frontiersman,
Congressman and soldier (b. 1786) ·
William Barret
Travis, Texan revolutionary (b. 1809) ·
March 16 – Nathaniel Bowditch,
American mathematician (b. 1773) ·
March 27 – James Fannin, Texas revolutionary (b. 1804) ·
April 7 – William Godwin, English writer (b. 1756) ·
April 29 – Simon Kenton, American frontiersman,
Revolutionary militia general (b. 1755) ·
May 23 – Edward Livingston,
American jurist, statesman (b. 1764) ·
June 10 – André-Marie Ampère,
French physicist (b. 1775) ·
June 23 – James Mill, British historian, economist,
political theorist, and philosopher (b. 1773) ·
June 28 – James Madison, 4th President
of the United States (b. 1751) July–December[edit] ·
August 20 – Agnes Bulmer, English poet (b. 1775) ·
August 21 – Claude-Louis Navier, French engineer, physicist (b. 1785) ·
August 25 – Christoph
Wilhelm Hufeland, German physician
(b. 1762) ·
September 5 – Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (b. 1790) ·
September 12 – Christian
Dietrich Grabbe, German playwright
(b. 1801) ·
September 14 – Aaron Burr, 3rd Vice
President of the United States (b. 1756) ·
September 17 – Antoine
Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist
(b. 1748) ·
November – Tenskwatawa, Shawnee prophet, political
leader (b. 1775) ·
November 5 – Karel Hynek Mácha, Czech poet (b. 1810) ·
November 6 – King Charles X of France (b. 1757) ·
November 16 – Christiaan
Hendrik Persoon, Dutch mycologist (b. 1761) ·
December 27 – Stephen F. Austin,
American pioneer (b. 1793) References[edit] 1. ^ Thomas, R. H. G.
(1972). London's First Railway – The London & Greenwich. London: Batsford. ISBN 0-7134-0468-X. 2. ^ 3. ^ The World Book Encyclopedia.
1970. (U.S.A.) Library of Congress catalog card number 70-79247. 4. ^ "The Constitution of the Republic of Texas
(1836)". University of Texas School of Law. Retrieved 9
December 2012. 5. ^ wikisource:1836 (33) Registration of Births &c. A
bill for registering Births Deaths and Marriages in England. 6. ^ Palmer, Alan; Veronica
(1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd.
pp. 260–261. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2. 7. ^ "Railroad
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Retrieved 22 August 2016. Further reading[edit] ·
"Chronicle of Events from August 1836 to September
1837". American Almanac and Repository of Useful
Knowledge. Boston: Charles Bowen. 1838. ·
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