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Year 1836 (''' MDCCCXXXVI ''') was a Leap Year Starting On Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Year Starting On Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian Calendar ).

EVENTS OF 1836

January - March

January 5 - Davy Crockett arrives in Texas .

January 12 - Battle of Wetumka , Florida .

Battle Of The Alamo

January 12 - HMS ''Beagle'' with Charles Darwin reaches Sydney, Australia .

February 4 - Dade County, Florida is formed.

February 23 - The Alamo is surrounded by Santa Anna's army, in 13-day ordeal.

February 25 - Samuel Colt receives an American Patent for the Colt Revolver , the first revolving barrel multishot firearm.

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 .

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March 2 - Declaration Of Independence of the Republic Of Texas from Mexico .

against about 1600 Mexicans .

March 17 - Texas abolishes slave trade.

March 23 - The Coin Press is invented by Franklin Beale .

April - June

April 20 - The Territory of Wisconsin is created.

forces under General Santa Anna are defeated at San Jacinto , Texas .

forces under Texas General Sam Houston capture Mexican General Antonio López De Santa Anna .

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 .

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 15 - Arkansas is the 25th state admitted in the United States of America

July - September

July 13 - First numbered U.S. patent #1 (after filing 9,957 unnumbered patents) is granted, for locomotive wheels.

July 20 - Charles Darwin climbs Green Hill on Ascension .

July 21 - The first Canadian railroad opens, between Laprairie and St. John, Quebec .

July 27 - Adelaide , South Australia is founded.

July 30 - The first English newspaper is published in Hawaii .

August 17 - HMS ''Beagle'' with Charles Darwin leaves South America , headed back to England.

August 30 - The city of Houston, Texas is founded.

September 1 - Rebuilding begins at Synagogue Of Rabbi Judah Hasid in Jerusalem .

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

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October - December

October 2 - Charles Darwin returns to England aboard HMS ''Beagle'' with biological data he will later use to develop his Theory Of Evolution .

October 22 - Sam Houston is inaugurated as first elected President of the Republic Of Texas .

October 24 - A. Phillips patents the Match .

October 31 - Bristol Riot - see 1836 In The United Kingdom .

December 4 - Whig Party holds its first national convention, in Harrisburg, PA .

defeats William Henry Harrison .

December 15 - The US Patent Office ( USPTO ) burns in Washington, DC .

December 27 - Avalanche at Lewes Sussex , England kills 8 of 15 buried.

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 .

December 30 - The Lehman theater in St Petersburg catches fire: hundreds die.

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Boer s 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 is 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 .

James Peter Allaire 's company, the Howell Works , is at its peak.

BIRTHS

January - June

January 2 - Mendele Moykher Sforim , Russian Yiddish writer (d. 1917 )

January 10 - Charles Phillip Ingalls , Pioneer father of author Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. June 8 , 1902 )

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 painter. 1910 )

March 12 - Isabella Beeton , British cook and expert on household management (d. 1865 )

March 20 - Ferris Jacobs, Jr. , American politician (d. 1886 )

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 - December

July 8 - Joseph Chamberlain , British politician (d. 1914 )

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 )

September 17 - William Jackson Palmer , founder of Colorado Springs, Colorado (d. 1836)

October 15 - James Tissot , French artist (d. 1902 )

November 11 - Thomas Bailey Aldrich , American poet and novelist (d. 1907 )

Unknown dates

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DEATHS

January - June

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 )

July - December

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 )

Unknown dates

Bernhard Meyer , German physician and ornithologist (b. 1767 )

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