1836 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1836?
- February 25, 1836 – Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for the Colt revolver.
- March 1, 1836 – A convention of delegates from 57 Texas communities convenes in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, to deliberate independence from Mexico.
- March 2, 1836 – Texas Revolution: Declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico.
- March 5, 1836 – Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.
- March 6, 1836 – Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo – After a thirteen day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo are killed and the fort is captured.
- March 27, 1836 – Texas Revolution: Goliad massacre – Antonio López de Santa Anna orders the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texas POWs at Goliad, Texas.
- April 20, 1836 – U.S. Congress passes an act creating the Wisconsin Territory.
- April 22, 1836 – Texas Revolution: A day after the Battle of San Jacinto, forces under Texas General Sam Houston capture Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
- May 15, 1836 – Francis Baily observes “Baily’s beads” during an annular eclipse.
- June 15, 1836 – Arkansas is admitted as the 25th U.S. state.
- June 16, 1836 – The formation of the London Working Men’s Association gives rise to the Chartist Movement.
- July 29, 1836 – Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
- August 30, 1836 – The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen
- September 1, 1836 – Narcissa Whitman, one of the first English-speaking white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Washington.
- September 5, 1836 – Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.
- October 22, 1836 – Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.
- December 14, 1836 – The Toledo War unofficially ends.
- December 27, 1836 – The worst ever avalanche in England occurs at Lewes, Sussex, killing 8 people.
- December 28, 1836 – South Australia and Adelaide are founded.
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