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== Events ==
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=== January–March ===
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* [[January 1]] – Queen [[Maria II of Portugal]] marries [[Ferdinand II of Portugal|Prince Ferdinand Augustus Francis Anthony of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha]].
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* [[January 5]] – [[Davy Crockett]] arrives in [[Texas]].
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* [[January 12]]
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** HMS Beagle, with [[Charles Darwin]] on board, reaches [[Sydney]].
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** [[Will County, Illinois]], is formed.
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* [[February 8]] – [[London and Greenwich Railway]] opens its first section, the first railway in London, England.
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* [[February 16]] – A fire at the Lahaman Theatre in [[Saint Petersburg]] kills 126 people.<ref name=Fires>"Fires, Great", in ''The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance'', Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p76</ref>
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* [[February 23]] – [[Texas Revolution]]: The [[Battle of the Alamo]] begins, with an American settler army surrounded by the Mexican Army, under [[Antonio López de Santa Anna|Santa Anna]].
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* [[February 25]] – [[Samuel Colt]] receives a United States [[patent]] for the [[Colt Firearms|Colt]] [[revolver]], the first revolving barrel multishot firearm.
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* [[March 1]] – [[Texas Revolution]] – [[Convention of 1836]]: Delegates from many [[Texas]] communities gather in [[Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas]], to deliberate independence from Mexico.
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* [[March 2]] – [[Texas Revolution]] – [[Convention of 1836]]: The [[Texas Declaration of Independence]] is signed by 60 delegates, and the [[Republic of Texas]] is declared.
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* [[March 6]] – [[Texas Revolution]]: The [[Battle of the Alamo]] ends; 182 Texan settler soldiers die in a struggle with approximately 5,000 Mexican soldiers.<ref>''The World Book Encyclopedia''. 1970. (U.S.A.) Library of Congress catalog card number 70-79247.</ref>
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* [[March 11]] – Sultan Mahmud II abolishes the posts of ''[[Reis ül-Küttab]]'' and ''Kahya Bey'', and establishes the Ottoman ministries of Foreign Affairs and of the Interior in their place.
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* [[March 17]] – [[Texas Revolution]] – [[Convention of 1836]]: Delegates adopt the [[Constitution of the Republic of Texas]], modeled after the [[United States Constitution]]. It allows slavery, requires [[free black]]s to petition Congress to live in the country, but prohibits import of slaves from anywhere but the United States.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20130108073513/http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/constitutions/text/ccGP.html</ref>
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=== April–June ===
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* [[April 21]] – [[Texas Revolution]] – [[Battle of San Jacinto]]: Mexican forces under General [[Antonio López de Santa Anna]] are defeated at [[San Jacinto County, Texas|San Jacinto]], [[Texas]].
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* [[April 22]] – [[Texas Revolution]]: Forces under [[Republic of Texas|Texas]] General [[Sam Houston]] capture Mexican General [[Antonio López de Santa Anna]].
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* [[May 4]] – The [[Ancient Order of Hibernians]], an [[Irish Catholic]] [[fraternal organization]], is founded in [[New York City]].
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* [[May 7]] – The settlement of [[Mayagüez, Puerto Rico]] is elevated to the royal status of [[villa (chartered town)|villa]], by the government of Spain.
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* [[May 14]] – [[Texas Revolution]]: The [[Treaties of Velasco]] are signed, between Mexican General [[Antonio López de Santa Anna]] and the [[Republic of Texas]], but never ratified by the Mexican government.
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* [[June 15]] – [[Arkansas]] is the 25th state admitted into the United States of America.
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=== July–September ===
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* [[July 13]] – The first numbered {{US patent|1}} (after filing 9,957 unnumbered patents) is granted to [[John Ruggles]], for improvements to railroad [[steam locomotive]] tires.
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* [[July 21]] – The [[Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad]] opens between [[Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu|St. John]] and [[La Prairie, Quebec]], the first steam-worked passenger railroad in [[British North America]].
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* [[July 27]] – The settlement of [[Adelaide]], [[South Australia]], is founded.
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* [[July 30]] – The first English-language newspaper is published in Hawaii.
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* [[August 17]] – The [[Marriage Act 1836|Marriage Act]] in the United Kingdom establishes [[civil marriage]] and registration systems that permit marriages in [[Nonconformist (Protestantism)|nonconformist]] chapels, and a [[Registrar General]] of Births, Marriages, and Deaths.
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* [[August 30]] – The settlement of [[Houston]], [[Republic of Texas|Texas]] is founded.
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* [[September 1]] – Rebuilding begins at the [[Hurva Synagogue]] in [[Jerusalem]].
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* [[September 5]] – [[Sam Houston]] is elected as the first [[president of the Republic of Texas]].
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* [[September 11]] – The [[Riograndense Republic]] is proclaimed in South America.
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=== October–December ===
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* [[October]] 2 – [[Charles Darwin]] returns to England aboard {{HMS|Beagle}}, with biological data he will later use to develop his [[theory of evolution]], having left South America on [[August 17]].
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* [[October 13]] – [[Theodor Fliedner]], a [[Lutheran]] minister, and Friederike, his wife, open the [[Deaconess#Modern history|Deaconess]] Home and Hospital at [[Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth|Kaiserswerth]], Germany, as an institute to train women in [[nursing]].
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* [[October 22]] – [[Sam Houston]] is inaugurated as first elected [[President of the Republic of Texas]].
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* [[October 24]] – The earliest United States [[patent]] for a [[phosphorus]] [[Match#Friction matches|friction match]] is granted to Alonzo Dwight Phillips, of [[Springfield, Massachusetts]].
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* [[October 25]] – Construction begins on the [[Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad]] in [[North Carolina]]. Due to a lack of support in [[Raleigh, North Carolina|Raleigh]], the route is revised to run from [[Wilmington, North Carolina|Wilmington]] to the [[Petersburg Railroad]] in [[Weldon, North Carolina|Weldon]].<ref>http://www.historync.org/railroad-WWRR.htm|publisher=CommunicationSolutions/ISI</ref>
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* [[December 4]] – The [[Whig Party (United States)]] holds its first national convention, in [[Harrisburg, Pennsylvania]].
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* [[December 7]] – [[1836 United States presidential election]]: [[Martin Van Buren]] defeats [[William Henry Harrison]], and three other Whig candidates.
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* [[December 15]] – The [[United States Patent and Trademark Office|United States Patent Office]] burns in Washington, D.C.
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* [[December 26]] – The [[History of South Australia|Crown colony of South Australia]] is officially proclaimed (subsequently celebrated in the state of [[South Australia]] as [[Proclamation Day (South Australia)|Proclamation Day]]).
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* [[December 27]] – [[Lewes avalanche]]: An [[avalanche]] at [[Lewes]] in [[Sussex]], England, kills eight of fifteen people buried, when a row of cottages is engulfed in snow.
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* [[December 28]]
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** Spain recognizes the independence of Mexico.
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** The Colony of [[South Australia]] is founded by Captain [[John Hindmarsh]].
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* [[December 30]] – In [[Saint Petersburg]], the Lehman Theater catches fire, killing 800 people.
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* The first printed literature in [[Assyrian Neo-Aramaic]] is produced by [[Justin Perkins]], an American [[Presbyterian]] [[missionary]] in [[Persia]].
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* The [[New Board]] brokerage group is founded in New York City.
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* [[Eugène Schneider]] and his brother [[Adolphe Schneider]] purchase a bankrupt ironworks near the town of [[Le Creusot]], in the [[Burgundy (region)|Burgundy region]] of France, and found the steelworks and engineering company [[Schneider-Creusot|Schneider Frères & Cie]].
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* [[George Catlin]] ends his 6-year tour of 50 tribes in the [[Dakota Territory]].
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Latest revision as of 04:19, 1 March 2021

1826 < 1827 < 1828 < 1829 < 1830 < 1831 < 1832 <1833 < 1834 < 1835 < 1836 > 1837 > 1838 > 1839 > 1840 > 1841 > 1842 > 1843 > 1844 > 1845 > 1846
Decade.png ( 1830s: )    Year.png 1836 Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
Alamo.jpg
March 6: Battle of the Alamo
year 1836

Events

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

Date unknown


 

Event

EventStartEnd
Pax Brittanica18151915

 

New Groups

GroupImageTypeDescription
Union Theological SeminaryUnion Theological Seminary New York seal.pngMilitary ranksA bastion of progressive Christian scholarship.
Adelaide EstablishmentAdelaide Club.JPGThe group of wealthy landowners and industrialists who have played a considerable role in the history of South Australia since 1836.
University of LondonUniversity of London coat of arms.pngPublicLondon university consisting of 17 largely independent member institutions, some of them very famous
Riggs BankRiggs logo.pngA bank used by the CIA and other deep state actors for various illicit purposes.
Emory UniversityEmory University Seal.pngMilitary ranksMajor research university, especially in medicine.

 

Deaths

TitleBornDiedPlace of deathSummary
James Madison16 March 175128 June 1836United States
Virginia
Orange		Politician
Nathan Mayer Rothschild16 September 177728 July 1836Frankfurt-am-Main

 

Births

TitleBornPlace of birthDiedSummaryDescription
Thomas Brassey11 February 183623 February 1918Politician
Deep state operative		UK DSO
Joseph Rowntree24 May 183624 February 1925Businessperson
Philanthropy		English Quaker philanthropist and businessman known for being a champion of social reform. Founder of Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust.
Jay Gould27 May 1836United States
New York State
Roxbury		2 December 1892Financier
Businessperson
Henry Campbell-Bannerman7 September 1836Scotland
Glasgow
Kelvinside House		22 April 1908Politician
Businessperson
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References

  1. ↑ "Fires, Great", in The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance, Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p76
  2. ↑ The World Book Encyclopedia. 1970. (U.S.A.) Library of Congress catalog card number 70-79247.
  3. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20130108073513/http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/constitutions/text/ccGP.html
  4. ↑ http://www.historync.org/railroad-WWRR.htm%7Cpublisher=CommunicationSolutions/ISI
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