1836
| Centuries: | 18th · 19th century · 20th century |
| Decades: | 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s |
| Years: | 1833 1834 1835 1836 1837 1838 1839 |
| 1836 in topic: |
| Humanities |
| Archaeology - Architecture - Art - Literature - Music |
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| Australia - Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. - UK |
| Other topics |
| Rail Transport - Science - Sports |
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| Birth and death categories |
| Births - Deaths |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
| Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Works category |
| Works |
| Gregorian calendar | 1836 MDCCCXXXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2589 |
| Armenian calendar | 1285 ԹՎ ՌՄՁԵ |
| 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) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1828 – 1829 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5596 – 5597 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1891 – 1892 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1758 – 1759 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4937 – 4938 |
| Iranian calendar | 1214 – 1215 |
| Islamic calendar | 1252 – 1253 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2379 |
1836 (MDCCCXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar).
Contents |
Events
February
- February 4 - Dade County, Florida is formed.
- February 25 - Samuel Colt receives an American patent for the Colt revolver.
March
- 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 (189 Texans against about 1600 Mexicans).
April
- April 21 - Mexican forces under General Santa Anna 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
- May 7 - The 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 1836
- June 15 - Arkansas is the 25th state admitted in the United States of America
September
- September 5 - Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.
October
- October 2 - Charles Darwin returns to England aboard the HMS Beagle with biological data he will later use to develop his theory of evolution.
- October 31 - Bristol riot - see 1836 in the United Kingdom.
November
December
- 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.
Unknown dates
- 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 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.
Births
- January 2 - Mendele Moykher Sforim, Russian Yiddish writer (d. 1917)
- 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, Afriutcupd. 1910)
- March 12 - Isabella Beeton, British cook and expert on household management (d. 1865)
- 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 8 - Joseph Chamberlain, British politician (d. 1914)
- July 9 - Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1908)
- 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)
- October 15 - James Tissot, French artist (d. 1902)
- November 11 - Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American poet and novelist (d. 1907)
Deaths
- 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)
- 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)
- Bernhard Meyer, German physician and ornithologist (b. 1767)
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Settlements | 1836