1836

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Years:
1833 1834 1835 - 1836 - 1837 1838 1839

Decades:
1800s 1810s 1820s - 1830s - 1840s 1850s 1860s

Centuries:
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1836 in topic:
Arts
Architecture - Art - Literature - Music
Other topics
Canada - Rail transport - Science - South Africa - Sport

Lists of leaders:
Colonial governors - State leaders

From Categories:
births - deaths

1836 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar).

1 Events
- 1.1 Unknown dates
2 Births
3 Deaths

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Events

January - Book by Maria Monk claims that she was sexually exploited in a Canadian convent
February 3 - United States Whig Party holds its first convention in Albany, New York.
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 the Republic 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 Texans 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.
April 20 - U.S. Congress passes act creating the Wisconsin Territory
April 21 - Texas Revolution: Battle of San Jacinto - Republic of Texas forces under Sam Houston defeat troops under Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna. (Santa Anna and hundreds of his troops are taken prisoner along the San Jacinto River the next day.)
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.
September 8 - Transcendental Club founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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.
October 31 - Bristol riot - In Bristol, England, large crowd protests against the decision of the House of Lords to defeat the Reform Act. They burn down 100 houses, including the Bishop's Palace, the Custom House and the Mansion House and release prisoners. The dragoons attack the crowd and kill and wound hundreds
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.
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.

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Unknown dates

Chartists in Britain demand universal male suffrage.
Boers in South Africa begin the Great Trek across the Orange River.
Henry R. Campbell builds the first 4-4-0, a steam locomotive type that will soon become the most common on all railroads of the United States.
First printed literature in Assyrian Neo-Aramaic is produced by Justin Perkins, an American Presbyterian missionary.
Andrew Crosse's electrical experiment seems to produce strange insects; they are named acarus calvanicus