1836

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1833 1834 1835 - 1836 - 1837 1838 1839\n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1800s 1810s 1820s - 1830s - 1840s 1850s 1860s\n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

\n* January - Book by Maria Monk claims that she was sexually exploited in a Canadian convent\n* February 23 - The siege of the Alamo begins in San Antonio, Texas.\n* February 24 - Samuel Colt receives a patent for the Colt revolver\n* March 2 - Declaration of independence of Texas from Mexico.\n* March 5 - Samuel Colt makes the first pistol (.34-caliber). \n* 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. \n* March 27 - Texas Revolution: Goliad massacre - Antonio López de Santa Anna orders the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texanss at Goliad, Texas\n* 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.\n* May 15 - Francis Baily, during an eclipse of the sun, observes the phenomenon named after him as Baily's beads\n* June 15 - Arkansas is admitted as the 25th U.S. state.\n* 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.\n* September 1 - Narcissa Whitman, one of the first white woman to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Washington.\n* September 5 - Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas. \n* 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.\n* November - Martin Van Buren defeats William Henry Harrison in the U.S. presidential election\n* December 10 - Emory College, the forerunner of Emory University, is chartered in Oxford, Georgia. \n* Chartists in Great Britain demand universal male suffrage\n* Boers in South Africa begin the Great Trek across the Orange River

Births

\n*January 2 - Mendele Moykher Sforim, writer († 1917)\n*January 14 - Henri Fantin-Latour, painter († 1904)\n*January 27 - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, writer († 1895)\n*February 18 - Ramakrishna Paramhansa , Bengali religious leader († 1886)\n*February 24 - Winslow Homer, artist († 1910)\n*May 27 - Jay Gould, American financier († 1892)\n*May 28 - Alexander Mitscherlich, chemist († 1918)\n*May 31 – Jules Chéret, printmaker (d. 1932)\n*June 2 - Mily Balakirev, composer († 1910)\n*July 8 - Joseph Chamberlain, British politician († 1914)\n*July 9 - Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.\n*August 13 - Ioan Dimitrovich Kasatkin, later Bishop Nikolai of Japan.\n*August 24 - Susan Agnes Bernard, future First Lady of Canada († 1920)

Deaths

\n*January 7 - John Molson, Canadian entrepreneur \n*June 28 - James Madison, Fourth President of the United States\n*November 5 - Karel Hynek Mácha, poet \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n