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1836 in topic:

Humanities

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Lists of leaders

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Births - Deaths

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

Events

• February 25 - Samuel Colt receives an American patent for the Colt revolver.
• 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 21 - Mexican forces under General Santa Anna defeated at San Jacinto, Texas.
• May 15 - Francis Baily, during an eclipse of the sun, observes the phenomenon named after him as Baily's beads.
• 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 - U.S. presidential election: Martin Van Buren defeats William Henry Harrison.
• 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.

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, American artist (d. 1910)
• 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)
• August 13 - Bishop Nikolai of Japan, Russian Orthodox priest (d. 1912)
• August 24 - Susan Agnes Bernard, First Lady of Canada (d. 1920)
• August 25 - Bret Harte, American writer (d. 1902)
• 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)af:1836

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