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Historical Events in 1836

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Events by Year

Crockett Aids Revolution

Jan 5 Davy Crockett arrives in Nacogdoches, Texas, to aid the revolution

Jan 12 Battle of Wetumka, Fla

Darwin Reaches Sydney

Jan 12 HMS Beagle withCharles Darwin reaches Sydney, Australia

Feb 3 Whig Party holds its 1st national convention (Albany NY)
Feb 6 HMS Beagle andCharles Darwin arrive in Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania)

Sketches by Boz

Feb 7 "Sketches by Boz" (essays) published byCharles Dickens

Feb 22 Dutch garrison evacuates fort Du Bus New Guinea

Battle of the Alamo

Feb 23 The Alamo is besieged for 13 days until March 6 by the Mexican army under GeneralSanta Anna; the entire garrison is eventually killed

The Fall of the Alamo by Robert Jenkins Onderdonk shows folk hero Davy Crockett shortly before being killed by Mexican soldiers

Colt Revolver

Feb 25 Samuel Colt patents first multi-shot revolving-cylinder revolver, enabling the firearm to be fired multiple times without reloading

P. T. Barnum's Disgrace

Feb 25 ShowmanP. T. Barnum exhibits African American slave Joice Heth, claiming she was the 161 year-old nursemaid to George Washington

Circus Showman and BusinessmanP. T. Barnum

Feb 29 Giacomo Meyerbeers opera "Les Huguenots," premieres in Paris

Republic of Texas Declares Independence

Mar 2 Republic of Texas declares independence from Mexico in Columbia

Author of the Texas Declaration of IndependenceGeorge Childress

Mar 5 Samuel Colt's Patent Arms Manufacturing Company manufactures first pistol, 36-caliber "Texas" model, in Paterson, New Jersey
Mar 6 Battle of the Alamo: After 13 days of fighting, 1,500 to 3,000 Mexican soldiers overwhelm the Texan defenders, killing 182 to 257 Texans, including William Travis, Jim Bowie, andDavy Crockett
Mar 16 Constitution of the Republic of Texas approved, legalises slavery
Mar 27 First Mormon temple is dedicated in Kirtland, Ohio
Mar 27 Mexican Army executes over 425 Texian Army prisoners of war in Goliad, Republic of Texas[1]
Apr 14 US Congress forms Territory of Wisconsin
Apr 19 Nikolai Gogol's "Revisor" premieres in St Petersburg
Apr 20 Territory of Wisconsin created
Apr 21 Battle of San Jacinto, Texas wins independence from Mexico
May 7 The settlement of Mayagüez elevates Puerto Rico to the royal status of villa by the government of Spain
May 15 Francis Baily observes "Baily's Beads" during annular solar eclipse

St Paul

May 22 Felix Mendelssohn's oratorio "St Paul" premieres in Düsseldorf, Germany

May 31 HMS Beagle anchors in Simons Bay, Cape of Good Hope
Jun 1 Charles Darwin returns to Cape Town in South Africa
Jun 15 Arkansas becomes 25th state of the Union
Jun 16 London Working Men's Association forms

Smithsonian Institute

Jul 1 US PresidentAndrew Jackson announces to Congress bequest by James Smithson of 100,000 gold sovereigns to found Smithsonian Institution in Washington

Jul 4 Wisconsin Territory forms
Jul 8 Charles Darwin reaches Saint Helena in HMS Beagle and takes up lodgings near the tomb of Napoleon
Jul 13 US patent #1 (after 9,957 unnumbered patents), for locomotive wheels
Jul 19 HMS Beagle withCharles Darwin arrives in Ascension Island
Jul 21 1st Canadian RR opens, between Laprairie and St John, Quebec
Jul 27 The ship the "Duke of York" arrives with the first colonists at Nepean Bay, Kangaroo Island, South Australia
Jul 29 Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris
Jul 30 First English language newspaper published in Hawaii
Aug 1 As part of their homeward journey on the HMS Beagle,Charles Darwin returns to Bahia in Brazil
Aug 17 British parliament accepts registration of births, marriages and deaths
Aug 17Charles Darwin leaves South America for the last time on HMS Beagle
Aug 19 HMS Beagle anchors at Angra, Azores
Aug 30 City of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen
Aug 31 HMS Beagle anchors in Postage Praia, Cape Verde Islands
Sep 1 Narcissa Whitman, one of the first white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Oregon Country (now US state of Washington)
Sep 1 Reconstruction begins on Synagogue of Rabbi Judah Hasid in Jerusalem

Houston Elected President

Sep 5 Sam Houston elected President of the Republic of Texas

Emerson's Nature

Sep 9 Ralph Waldo Emerson publishes his influential essay "Nature" in the US, outlining his beliefs in transcendentalism

Sep 25 HMS Beagle anchors at St Michael
Oct 2 After 5 years at seaCharles Darwin returns to England aboard the HMS Beagle
Oct 12 18" of snow falls in Bridgewater, NY
Oct 22 Sam Houston inaugurated as 1st elected President of the Republic of Texas
Oct 24 Earliest American patent for a phosphorus friction match by Alonzo Dwight Phillips of Springfield, Massachusetts
Nov 10 Louis Napoleon banished to America
Nov 11 Chile declares war on Bolivia & Peru
Dec 4 Whig party holds its first national convention, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Van Buren Elected

Dec 7 Martin Van Buren elected the 8th President of the United States

Dec 10 Emory College (now Emory University) is chartered in Oxford, Georgia
Dec 14 The Toledo War unofficially ends, boundary dispute between Ohio state and territory of Michigan
Dec 15 Patent Office burns in Washington, D.C.
Dec 17 Colonel William Light chooses the site for the settlement of Adelaide in South Australia
Dec 27 Worst English avalanche kills 8 of 15 buried (Lewes Sussex)
Dec 28 Proclamation of South Australia as a British Province. Formal proclamation was read out near The Old Gum Tree, in what is now the Adelaide suburb of Glenelg North, by Captain (later Rear Admiral, Governor, Sir) John Hindmarsh
Dec 28 Spain recognizes the independence of Mexico
Dec 30 Lehman Theater in St Petersburg catches fire; 100s die