1836

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Decades: 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s - 1830s - 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s

Years: 1831 1832 1833 1834 1835 - 1836 - 1837 1838 1839 1840 1841

Events

February 23 - The siege of the Alamo begins in San Antonio, Texas.
February 24 - Samuel Colt receives a patent for the Colt revolver
March 2 - Declaration of independence of Texas from Mexico.
March 5 - Samuel Colt makes the first pistol (.34-caliber).
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.
March 27 - Texas Revolution: Goliad massacre[?] - Santa Ana orders the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texans at Goliad, Texas
May 15 - Francis Baily, during an eclipse of the sun, observes the phenomenon named after him as Baily's beads[?]
June 15 - Arkansas is admitted as the 25th U.S. state.
November - Martin Van Buren defeats William Henry Harrison in the U.S. presidential election

Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy

1836 in literature:

Births

January 14 - Henri Fantin-Latour, painter
January 27 - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, writer (+ 1895)
February 24 - Winslow Homer[?], artist
March 27 - Sir Henry Royce, automobile pioneer
May 27 - Jay Gould, American financier (+ 1892)
May 28 - Alexander Mitscherlich[?], chemist (+ 1918)
June 2 - Mily Balakirev, composer (+ 1910)
July 8 - Joseph Chamberlain, British politician
Sri Ramakrishna (+ 1886)

Deaths

November 5 - Karel Hynek Macha, poet
June 28 - James Madison, Fourth President of the United States

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