1836

Years: 1833 1834 1835 - 1836 - 1837 1838 1839
Decades: 1800s 1810s 1820s - 1830s - 1840s 1850s 1860s
Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century 1836 in art 1836 in literature 1836 in science 1836 in music 1836 in sports List of state leaders in 1836 List of religious leaders in 1836

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths

Events

January - Book by Maria Monk claims that she was sexually exploited in a Canadian convent
February 23 - The siege of the Alamo begins in San Antonio, Texas.
February 24 - Samuel Colt receives a patent for the Colt revolver
March 1 - Convention of delegates from 57 Texas communities convenes in Washington-on-the-Brazos to deliberate independence from Mexico
March 1 - Antonio García Gutiérrez's play El Trovador played for the first time
March 2 - Declaration of independence of Texas from Mexico.
March 5 - Samuel Colt makes the first pistol (.34-caliber).
March 6 - After a 13-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 189 Texas volunteers defending the Alamo are defeated and the fort taken.
March 27 - Texas Revolution: Goliad massacre - Antonio López de Santa Anna orders the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texanss at Goliad, Texas
March 31 - Marshall College, named for John Marshall, opens in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania. It later merges with Franklin College to become Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
May 15 - Francis Baily, during an eclipse of the sun, observes the phenomenon named after him as Baily's beads
June 15 - Arkansas is admitted as the 25th U.S. state.
July 11 - President Andrew Jackson issues the Specie Circular, beginning the failure of the land speculation economy that would lead to the Panic of 1837.
September 1 - Narcissa Whitman, one of the first white woman to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Washington.
September 5 - Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.
October 2 - Naturalist Charles Darwin returns to Falmouth, England aboard the HMS Beagle after a 5-year journey collecting biological data he will later use to develop his theory of evolution.
November - Martin Van Buren defeats William Henry Harrison in the U.S. presidential election
December 10 - Emory College, the forerunner of Emory University, is chartered in Oxford, Georgia.

Chartists in Britain demand universal male suffrage
Boers in South Africa begin the Great Trek across the Orange River

Births

January 2 - Mendele Moykher Sforim, writer († 1917)
January 14 - Henri Fantin-Latour, painter († 1904)
January 27 - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, writer († 1895)
February 18 - Ramakrishna Paramhansa , Bengali religious leader († 1886)
February 24 - Winslow Homer, artist († 1910)
May 27 - Jay Gould, American financier († 1892)
May 28 - Alexander Mitscherlich, chemist († 1918)
May 31 – Jules Chéret, printmaker (d. 1932)
June 2 - Mily Balakirev, composer († 1910)
July 8 - Joseph Chamberlain, British politician († 1914)
July 9 - Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
August 13 - Ioan Dimitrovich Kasatkin, later Bishop Nikolai of Japan.
August 24 - Susan Agnes Bernard, future First Lady of Canada († 1920)

Deaths

January 7 - John Molson, Canadian entrepreneur
June 28 - James Madison, Fourth President of the United States
November 5 - Karel Hynek Mácha;, poet