[Edit]

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

top

February 4 - Dade County, Florida is formed.

February 25 - Samuel Colt receives an American patent for the Colt revolver.

top

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).

top

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.

top

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 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.

top

September 5 - Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.

top

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.

top

November - U.S. presidential election: Martin Van Buren defeats William Henry Harrison.

top

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.

top

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.

top

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, American artist (d. 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)

top

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)

top