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U.S.-related events during the year of 1836
Events from the year 1836 in the United States . Exceptionally, this page covers not only the
history of the United States , but also that of the
Republic of Texas in 1836.
Incumbents
Governors and
lieutenant governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama :
Clement Comer Clay (
Democratic )
Governor of Arkansas :
Governor of Connecticut :
Henry W. Edwards (
Democratic )
Governor of Delaware :
Caleb P. Bennett (
Democratic ) (until July 11),
Charles Polk Jr. (
Whig ) (starting July 11)
Governor of Georgia :
William Schley (
Democratic )
Governor of Illinois :
Joseph Duncan (
Whig )
Governor of Indiana :
Noah Noble (
Whig )
Governor of Kentucky :
James T. Morehead (
National Republican ) (until August 30),
James Clark (starting August 30)
Governor of Louisiana :
Edward Douglass White Sr. (
Whig )
Governor of Maine :
Robert P. Dunlap (
Democratic )
Governor of Maryland :
James Thomas (
Whig ) (until January 14),
Thomas W. Veazey (
Whig ) (starting January 14)
Governor of Massachusetts :
Samuel Turell Armstrong (
Whig ) (until January 13),
Edward Everett (
Whig ) (starting January 13)
Governor of Mississippi :
John A. Quitman (
Whig ) (until January 7),
Charles Lynch (
Democratic ) (starting January 7)
Governor of Missouri :
Daniel Dunklin (
Democratic ) (until September 30),
Lilburn W. Boggs (
Democratic ) (starting September 30)
Governor of New Hampshire :
William Badger (
Democratic ) (until June 2),
Isaac Hill (
Democratic ) (starting June 2)
Governor of New Jersey :
Peter Dumont Vroom (
Democratic ) (until November 3),
Philemon Dickerson (
Democratic ) (starting November 3)
Governor of New York :
William L. Marcy (
Democratic )
Governor of North Carolina :
Richard Dobbs Spaight Jr. (
Democratic ) (until December 31),
Edward Bishop Dudley (
Whig ) (starting December 31)
Governor of Ohio :
Robert Lucas (
Democratic ) (until December 12),
Joseph Vance (
Whig ) (starting December 12)
Governor of Pennsylvania :
Joseph Ritner (
Anti-Masonic )
Governor of Rhode Island :
John Brown Francis (
Democratic )
Governor of South Carolina :
George McDuffie (
Democratic ) (until December 10),
Pierce Mason Butler (
Democratic ) (starting December 10)
Governor of Tennessee :
Newton Cannon (
Whig )
Governor of Vermont :
Silas H. Jennison (
Whig )
Governor of Virginia :
Littleton Waller Tazewell (
Whig ) (until April 30),
Wyndham Robertson (
Whig ) (starting April 30)
Lieutenant governors
Events
January–March
February 23–March 6:
Battle of the Alamo
January 5 –
Davy Crockett arrives in
Texas , which at this time is not part of the United States.
January 18 –
Dade County, Florida , is formed.
February 3 –
United States Whig Party holds its first convention in
Albany, New York .
February 5 –
Henry Roe Campbell builds the first
4-4-0 , a
steam locomotive type that will soon become the most common on all
railroads of the United States.
[1]
February 23 –
Battle of the Alamo : The siege of the
Alamo begins in
San Antonio, Texas .
February 25 –
Samuel Colt receives an American patent for the
Colt revolver , the first practical adaptation of the revolving flintlock pistol.
March 1 – At the
Convention of 1836 , delegates from 57
Texas communities convene in
Washington-on-the-Brazos to deliberate independence from
Mexico .
March 2 – At the
Convention of 1836 , the
Republic of Texas declares independence from
Mexico .
March 6 – The
Battle of the Alamo ends; 189
Texans are slaughtered by about 1,600
Mexicans .
March 17 –
Texas abolishes the slave trade.
March 27
March 31 – Marshall College, named for
John Marshall , opens in
Mercersburg, Pennsylvania . It later merges with Franklin College to become
Franklin and Marshall College in
Lancaster, Pennsylvania .
April–June
July–September
October–December
December 7:
Martin Van Buren elected president
October 15 –
Alexander Twilight becomes the first African American elected to public office, joining the
Vermont House of Representatives .
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October 22 –
Sam Houston is inaugurated as first elected president of the
Republic of Texas .
December 4 –
Whig Party holds its first national convention, in
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania .
December 7 –
U.S. presidential election, 1836 :
Martin Van Buren defeats
William Henry Harrison .
December 10 – Emory College, the forerunner of
Emory University , is chartered in
Oxford, Georgia .
December 14 – The
Toledo War , the mostly bloodless
boundary dispute between
Ohio and the adjoining
Michigan Territory , is unofficially ended by a resolution passed by the controversial "Frostbitten Convention".
December 15 – The
United States Patent Office burns in
Washington, D.C.
December 20 – Sudden freeze kills many travelers in
Illinois .
December 23 – Georgia Female College, the forerunner of
Wesleyan College , is chartered in
Macon, Georgia as the first college for women in the U.S.
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January 10 –
Charles Ingalls ,
settler father of
Laura Ingalls Wilder (died
1902 )
February 5 –
William E. Miller soldier and Pennsylvania State Senator (died
1919 )
February 9 –
Franklin B. Gowen , industrialist (died
1889 )
February 24 –
Winslow Homer , landscape painter and printmaker (died
1910 )
February 27 –
Russell A. Alger , U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1902 to 1907 (died
1907 )
March 2 –
John W. Foster , journalist and politician (died
1917 )
March 20 –
Ferris Jacobs Jr. , politician (died
1886 )
April 27 –
Charles Bendire , U.S. Army officer and ornithologist (died
1897 )
May 23 –
Touch the Clouds (Maȟpíya Ičáȟtagya), Native American chieftain of Teton Lakota Sioux (died
1905 )
May 27 –
Jay Gould , railroad developer and speculator (died
1892 )
June 15 –
George L. Shoup , U.S. Senator from Idaho from 1890 to 1901 (died
1904 )
June 16 –
Wesley Merritt , U.S. Army general (died
1910 )
June 28 –
Lyman J. Gage , financier and presidential Cabinet officer (died
1927 )
June 29 –
Thomas Philander Ryder , composer, organist, teacher, conductor and organ builder (died
1887 )
July 26 –
Ellen Maria Colfax , wife of
Schuyler Colfax ,
Second Lady of the United States (died
1911 )
August 5 –
John T. Raymond , born John O'Brien, actor (died
1887 )
August 11 –
Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt , poet (died
1919 )
August 25 –
Bret Harte , writer of fiction and poetry (died
1902 )
September 10 –
Joseph Wheeler , U.S. Army general and politician (died
1906 )
September 11 –
Fitz Hugh Ludlow , writer (died
1870 )
September 18 –
William Jackson Palmer , railroad civil engineer, Union Army general, industrialist and philanthropist (died
1909 )
November 1 –
George E. Spencer , U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1868 to 1879 (died
1893 )
November 8 –
Milton Bradley , game pioneer and businessman (died
1911 )
November 11 –
Thomas Bailey Aldrich , editor, poet and novelist (died
1907 )
December 19 –
Maria Sanford , American educator (died
1920 )
Deaths
James Madison
January 30 –
Betsy Ross , flagmaker (born
1752 )
February 18 –
Cornplanter (Gaiänt'wakê), Seneca chief (b. 1750)
February 23 –
Ezra Ames , portrait painter (born
1768 )
March 6 (at the
Battle of the Alamo )
March 16 –
Nathaniel Bowditch , mathematician (born 1773)
March 27 –
James Fannin , Texas Revolutionary (born
1804 )
April 29 –
Simon Kenton , frontiersman and Revolutionary War militia general (born 1755)
June 9 –
Supply Belcher , composer and singer (born 1751)
June 25 –
Jesse Bledsoe , U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1813 to 1814 (born
1776 )
June 28 –
James Madison , fourth
president of the United States from 1809 to 1817 (born
1751 )
September 14 –
Aaron Burr , third
vice president of the United States from 1801 to 1805 (born
1756 )
October 10 –
Martha Jefferson Randolph , Acting
First Lady of the United States from 1801 to 1809 (born
1772 )
November –
Tenskwatawa , Shawnee prophet and political leader (born
1775 )
December 27 –
Stephen F. Austin , pioneer (born
1793 )
See also
References
External links