1836

1836 (MDCCCXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1836th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 836th year of the 2nd millennium, the 36th year of the 19th century, and the 7th year of the 1830s decade. As of the start of 1836, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1836 in topic
Humanities
Archaeology – Architecture – Art
Film - Literature – Music - (jazz)
By country
Australia – Belgium – Brazil – Bulgaria – Canada – Denmark – France – Germany – Mexico – New Zealand – Norway – Philippines – Portugal – Russia – South Africa – Spain – Sweden – United Kingdom – United States – Venezuela
Other topics
Rail transport – Science – Sports
Lists of leaders
Sovereign states – State leaders – Territorial governors – Religious leaders
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
Works category
Works
1836 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1836
MDCCCXXXVI
Ab urbe condita2589
Armenian calendar1285
ԹՎ ՌՄՁԵ
Assyrian calendar6586
Balinese saka calendar1757–1758
Bengali calendar1243
Berber calendar2786
British Regnal year6 Will. 4 – 7 Will. 4
Buddhist calendar2380
Burmese calendar1198
Byzantine calendar7344–7345
Chinese calendar乙未年 (Wood Goat)
4532 or 4472
    — to —
丙申年 (Fire Monkey)
4533 or 4473
Coptic calendar1552–1553
Discordian calendar3002
Ethiopian calendar1828–1829
Hebrew calendar5596–5597
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1892–1893
 - Shaka Samvat1757–1758
 - Kali Yuga4936–4937
Holocene calendar11836
Igbo calendar836–837
Iranian calendar1214–1215
Islamic calendar1251–1252
Japanese calendarTenpō 7
(天保７年)
Javanese calendar1763–1764
Julian calendarGregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar4169
Minguo calendar76 before ROC
民前76年
Nanakshahi calendar368
Thai solar calendar2378–2379
Tibetan calendar阴木羊年
(female Wood-Goat)
1962 or 1581 or 809
    — to —
阳火猴年
(male Fire-Monkey)
1963 or 1582 or 810
Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1836.
March 2: Independence of Texas.

Events

January–March
March 6: Battle of the Alamo
  • 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.
  • 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 blacks to petition Congress to live in the country, but prohibits import of slaves from anywhere but the United States.[5]
  • March 27
    • Texas Revolution – Goliad massacre: 342 Texan prisoners are shot and killed, along with Texan General James Walker Fannin, by Mexican troops in Goliad, near the Presidio La Bahía.
    • The United States Survey of the Coast is returned to the U.S. Treasury Department, and renamed the U.S. Coastal Survey.
  • March 29 – Richard Wagner's opera Das Liebesverbot is performed for the first time, in Magdeburg.
  • March 31 (dated April) – The first monthly part of Charles Dickens's The Pickwick Papers ("The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club..., edited by Boz") is published in London.

April–June
April 21: Battle of San Jacinto
  • May 15 – Francis Baily, during an eclipse of the Sun, observes the phenomenon named after him as Baily's beads.
  • May 19 – Fort Parker massacre: Among those captured by Native Americans is 9-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker; she later gives birth to a son named Quanah, who becomes the last chief of the Comanche.
  • June 15 – Arkansas is the 25th state admitted into the United States of America.

July–September
  • July 13 – The first numbered U.S. Patent 1 (after filing 9,957 unnumbered patents) is granted to John Ruggles, for improvements to railroad steam locomotive tires.
  • July 21 – The Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad opens between St. John and La Prairie, Quebec, the first steam-worked passenger railroad in British North America.
  • July 27 – The settlement of Adelaide, South Australia, is founded.
  • July 30 – The first English-language newspaper is published in Hawaii.
  • August 17 – The Marriage Act in the United Kingdom establishes civil marriage and registration systems that permit marriages in nonconformist chapels, and a Registrar General of Births, Marriages, and Deaths.[6][7]
  • August 30 – The settlement of Houston, Texas is founded.
  • September 1 – Rebuilding begins at the Hurva Synagogue in Jerusalem.
  • September 5 – Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.
  • September 11 – The Riograndense Republic is proclaimed in South America.

October–December

Date unknown
  • The first printed literature in Assyrian Neo-Aramaic is produced by Justin Perkins, an American Presbyterian missionary in Persia.
  • The New Board brokerage group is founded in New York City.
  • Eugène Schneider and his brother Adolphe Schneider purchase a bankrupt ironworks near the town of Le Creusot, in the Burgundy region of France, and found the steelworks and engineering company Schneider Frères & Cie.
  • George Catlin ends his 6-year tour of 50 tribes in the Dakota Territory.
  • John Murray III publishes A Hand-book for Travellers on the Continent; being a guide through Holland, Belgium, Prussia and northern Germany, and along the Rhine from Holland to Switzerland, the first of Murray's Handbooks for Travellers, in London.
  • Chatsworth Head is found near Tamassos, Cyprus.[9]

Births

January–June
Ramakrishna
Isabella Beeton

July–December
Joseph Chamberlain
Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt
Benjamin Harris Babbidge
W.S. Gilbert

Deaths

January–June
Davy Crockett
André-Marie Ampère
James Madison

July–December
Charles X of France

1836 serves as the start date for the grand strategy video games Victoria: An Empire Under the Sun, Victoria II, and Victoria 3 by Paradox Development Studio.[10][11]

References
  1. Thomas, R. H. G. (1972). London's First Railway – The London & Greenwich. London: Batsford. ISBN 0-7134-0468-X.
  2. "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
  3. Texas Declaration of Independence  – via Wikisource.
  4. The World Book Encyclopedia. 1970. (U.S.A.) Library of Congress catalog card number 70-79247.
  5. "The Constitution of the Republic of Texas (1836)". University of Texas School of Law. Archived from the original on January 8, 2013. Retrieved December 9, 2012.
  6. s:1836 (33) Registration of Births &c. A bill for registering Births Deaths and Marriages in England.
  7. Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 260–261. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  8. "Railroad — Wilmington & Raleigh (later Weldon)". North Carolina Business History. CommunicationSolutions/ISI. 2006. Retrieved April 5, 2012.
  9. Mattusch, Carol C. (1988). Greek Bronze Statuary: from the beginnings through the fifth century B.C.. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. p. 3. ISBN 0801421489. Retrieved August 22, 2016.
  10. "Victoria 3 Officially Announced A Decade After Previous Game". GameSpot. Retrieved April 21, 2022.
  11. "Victoria 2". Paradox Interactive Forums. Retrieved April 21, 2022.

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