1836

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1800s  1810s  1820s  – 1830s –  1840s  1850s  1860s
Years:	1833 1834 1835 – 1836 – 1837 1838 1839

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1836 Media

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  March 6: The 182 Texas defenders of the Alamo are killed while defending against 2,000 Mexican Army attackers

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  March 2: The Republic of Texas declares independence from Mexico.

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  April 21: Battle of San Jacinto

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  October 2: Darwin returns aboard HMS Beagle.

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  by Maull & Polyblank, hand-tinted albumen print, 1857

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  Joseph Chamberlain (1836 – 1914), British businessman, politician, and statesman

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  Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt

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  Benjamin Harris Babbidge

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  Photograph of W.S. Gilbert by Elliott & Fry. Cabinet card, 16.5 x 11 centimeters.

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.

Events

• The Year without a Summer
• Pepsian discovered.
• Charles Dickens writes and publishes his first book, The Pickwick Papers.
• First railway opens in Australia, a carriage on rails, pushed by convicts at Port Arthur, Tasmania

Deaths

• March 6 – Davy Crockett, 49, American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician, execution (b. 1786)
• June 28 - James Madison, 85, fourth President of the United States, heart failure (b. 1751)