In history, year 1836 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1836.
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
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| 25 february | American inventor and industrialist Samuel Colt received apatent for a 'revolving gun', later known as a revolver. |
| 02 march | Texas Revolution-At a convention of delegates in Washington-on-the-Brazos, the Mexican state of Texas adopted a declaration ofindependence, establishing the Republic of Texas. |
| 27 march | Texas Revolution-Mexican President Antonio López de Santa Anna ordered the execution of about 400 Texan prisoners of war. |
| 21 april | Texan forces led by Sam Houston defeated General Antonio Lópezde Santa Anna and his Mexican troops in the Battle of San Jacinto near La Porte, the decisive battle in the Texas Revolution. |
| 04 may | The Ancient Order of Hibernians, an Irish Catholic fraternalorganization, was founded in New York City. |
| 15 may | English astronomer Francis Baily first observed 'Baily's beads', a phenomenon during a solar eclipse in which the rugged lunar limb topography allows beads of sunlight to shine through. |
| 29 july | The Arc de Triomphe in Paris, commemorating those who fought and died for France in the French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars,was formally inaugurated. |
| 30 august | Real estate entrepreneurs John Kirby Allen and Augustus ChapmanAllen founded the city of Houston on land near the banks of BuffaloBayou in present-day Texas. |
| 14 december | The Toledo War, the mostly bloodless boundary dispute between Ohio and the adjoining Territory of Michigan, unofficial ended with a resolution passed by the controversial 'Frostbitten Convention'. |
| 28 december | At the Old Gum Tree near present-day Adelaide, Royal Navy Rear-Admiral John Hindmarsh read a proclamation establishing the British Province of South Australia. |
| 15 June | Arkansas became the 25th state of the United States. |
| 27 July | Adelaide was established in South Australia. |
| 30 July | The first English-language newspaper was published in Hawaii, USA. |
| 05 September | Famous American politician Sam Houston was appointed the new President of the Republic of Texas. |
| 29 September | Madras Chamber of Commerce and Industry was established. |
| 17 August | Registrations relating to birth, marriage and death were accepted in the UK Parliament. |
| 30 August | The city of Melbourne was founded. |
| 03 January | Munshi Naval Kishore, the founder of Asia's oldest printing press, was born in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh. |
| 10 January | Professor Madhusudan Gupta studied the internal structure of the human body for the first time. |
| 18 February | The great saint and thinker Ramakrishna Paramahamsa was born. |
| 21 March | Calcutta (now Kolkata) started the first public library, now named the National Library. |
| 23 March | Franklin Bell invented the coin printing press. |
| 08 January | The London and Greenwich Railway opened its first section, the first railway station in London, England. |
| 23 February | The Battle of the Alamo began with the American settler army surrounded by the Mexican army under Santa Anna. |
| 06 March | The Battle of the Alamo ended, with around 5,000 Mexican soldiers of 182 Texan settler soldiers who died in the conflict. |
| 20 April | The Wisconsin Territory was formed, the first capital being Belmont. |
| 04 May | The Ancient Order of Hibernian, an Irish Catholic fraternal organization, was founded in New York City. |
| 15 June | Arkansas became the 25th state of the United States. |
| 27 July | Adelaide was established in South Australia. |
| 30 August | The city of Houston, Texas was founded. |
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 02 January | Mendele Mocher Sforim / Author / Russia |
| 04 October | Juliette Adam / Author / France |
| 06 May | Max Eyth / Author / Germany |
| 06 January | Ludwig Schüler / Politician / Germany |
| 07 September | Henry Campbell-Bannerman / Politician / United Kingdom |
| 14 January | Henri Fantin-Latour / Painter / France |
| 16 June | Wesley Merritt / Politician / United States of America |
| 16 December | Ernst von Bergmann / Academic / Germany |
| 17 May | Wilhelm Steinitz / Chess Player / United States of America |
| 17 May | Virginie Loveling / Poet / Belgium |
| 17 February | Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer / Poet / Spain |
| 18 November | W. S. Gilbert / Poet / United Kingdom |
| 20 March | Ferris Jacobs / Politician / United States of America |
| 22 August | Archibald Willard / Soldier / United States of America |
| 22 November | George Barham / Business Man / United Kingdom |
| 25 August | Bret Harte / Poet / United States of America |
| 28 May | Alexander Mitscherlich / Academic / Germany |
| 29 February | Dickey Pearce / Baseball Player / United States of America |
| 30 November | Lord Frederick Cavendish / Politician / Ireland |
| 31 July | Vasily Sleptsov / Author / Russia |