• January 1 ? Hill Street Academy is named Colombo Academy and acquired by the Government, establishing the first public school in Sri Lanka.
• January 1 ? Queen Maria II of Portugal marries Prince Ferdinand Augustus Francis Anthony of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha .
• January 5 ? Davy Crockett arrives in Texas .
• January 12
  • HMS? Beagle , with Charles Darwin on board, reaches Sydney .
  • Will County, Illinois , is formed.
• February 8 ? London and Greenwich Railway opens its first section, the first railway in London, England. ^[1]
• February 23 ? Texas Revolution : The Battle of the Alamo begins, with an American settler army surrounded by the Mexican Army, under Santa Anna .
• February 25 ? Samuel Colt receives a United States patent for the Colt revolver , the first revolving barrel multishot firearm.
• March 1 ? Texas Revolution ? Convention of 1836 : Delegates from many Texas communities gather in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas , to deliberate independence from Mexico.
• March 2 ? Texas Revolution ? Convention of 1836 : The Texas Declaration of Independence is signed by 60 delegates, and the Republic of Texas is declared. ^[2]
• March 6 ? Texas Revolution : The Battle of the Alamo ends; 182 Texan settler soldiers die in a struggle with approximately 5,000 Mexican soldiers. ^[3]

• March 11 ? Sultan Mahmud II abolishes the posts of Reis ul-Kuttab 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. ^[4]
• 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 Bahia .
  • The United States Survey of the Coast is returned to the U.S. Treasury Department , and renamed the U.S. Coast 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 20 ? The Wisconsin Territory is created; the first capital is Belmont .
• April 21 ? Texas Revolution ? Battle of San Jacinto : Mexican forces under General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna are defeated at San Jacinto , Texas .
• April 22 ? Texas Revolution : Forces under Texas General Sam Houston capture Mexican General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna .
• May 4 ? The Ancient Order of Hibernians , an Irish Catholic fraternal organization , is founded in New York City .
• May 7 ? The settlement of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico is elevated to the royal status of villa , by the government of Spain.
• May 14 ? Texas Revolution : The Treaties of Velasco are signed, between Mexican General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna and the Republic of Texas , but never ratified by the Mexican government.

• 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 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. ^{[5] [6]}
• 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 2 ? Charles Darwin returns to England aboard HMS? Beagle , with biological data he will later use to develop his theory of evolution , having left South America on August 17 .

   

• October 13 ? Theodor Fliedner , a Lutheran minister, and Friederike, his wife, open the Deaconess Home and Hospital at Kaiserswerth , Germany, as an institute to train women in nursing .
• October 22 ? Sam Houston is inaugurated as first elected President of the Republic of Texas .
• October 24 ? The earliest United States patent for a phosphorus friction match is granted to Alonzo Dwight Phillips, of Springfield, Massachusetts .
• October 25 ? Construction begins on the Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad in North Carolina . Due to a lack of support in Raleigh , the route is revised to run from Wilmington to the Petersburg Railroad in Weldon . ^[7]
• November 28 ? The University of London is established by Royal Charter , with University College London and King's College London named as the first affiliated colleges.
• December 4 ? The Whig Party (United States) holds its first national convention, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania .
• December 7 ? 1836 United States presidential election : Martin Van Buren defeats William Henry Harrison , and three other Whig candidates, marking the most recent time a Democrat is elected to succeed a two-term Democratic U.S. president. ^[8]
• December 15 ? The United States Patent Office burns in Washington, D.C.
• December 26 ? The Crown colony of South Australia is officially proclaimed (subsequently celebrated in the state of South Australia as Proclamation Day ).
• December 27 ? Lewes avalanche : An avalanche at Lewes in Sussex , England, kills eight of fifteen people buried, when a row of cottages is engulfed in snow.
• December 28
  • Spain recognizes the independence of Mexico.
  • The Colony of South Australia is founded by Captain John Hindmarsh .
• December 30 ? In Saint Petersburg , the Lehman Theater catches fire, killing 800 people.

• 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.
• Eugene 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 Freres & 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]
• In Munich , the art museum Alte Pinakothek opened.

• January 2 ? Mendele Mocher Sforim , Russian Yiddish writer (d. 1917 )
• January 8 ? Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema , Dutch-English painter (d. 1912 )
• January 10 ? Charles Phillip Ingalls , American pioneer , father of author Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1902 )
• January 14
  • Henri Fantin-Latour , French painter (d. 1904 )
  • Hugh Judson Kilpatrick , American general, politician, and diplomat (d. 1881 )
• January 24 ? Signe Rink , Greenland-born Danish writer, ethnologist (d. 1909 )
• January 27 ? Leopold von Sacher-Masoch , Austrian writer for whom masochism is named (d. 1895 )
• February 5 ? Tenshoin , wife of 13th Sh?gun of Japan, Tokugawa Iesada (d. 1883 )
• February 16 ? Robert Halpin , Irish mariner, cable layer (d. 1894 )
• February 18 ? Ramakrishna Paramhansa , Indian religious leader (d. 1886 )
• February 21 ? Leo Delibes , French composer (d. 1891 )
• February 24 ? Winslow Homer , American painter (d. 1910 )
• March 2 ? Henry Billings Brown , Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1913 )
• March 4 ? Stuart Robson , American stage comedian (d. 1903 )
• March 12 ? Isabella Beeton , English writer on household management (d. 1865 )
• March 20 ? Sir Edward Poynter , French-born British artist (d. 1919 )
• March 28 ? Frederick Pabst , German-American brewer (d. 1904 )
• April 27 ? Charles Bendire , U.S. Army captain, ornithologist (d. 1897 )
• May 7 ? Manuel de la Camara y Libermoore , Spanish admiral (d. 1920 )
• May 23 ? Touch the Clouds , Native American chieftain (Teton Lakota Sioux) (d. 1905 )
• May 26 ? Melanie de Pourtales , French salonniere, courtier (d. 1914 )
• May 27 ? Jay Gould , American financier (d. 1892 )
• May 28 ? Friedrich Baumfelder , German composer, conductor, and pianist (d. 1916 )
• May 31 ? Jules Cheret , French printmaker (d. 1932 )
• June 9 ? Elizabeth Garrett Anderson , English physician, suffragette (d. 1910 )
• June 16 ? Wesley Merritt , American general (d. 1910 )
• June 28 ? Lyman J. Gage , American financier (d. 1927 )

• July 8 ? Joseph Chamberlain , British politician (d. 1914 )
• July 9 ? Camille of Renesse-Breidbach , Belgian nobleman, entrepreneur and author (d. 1904 )
• July 24 ? Jan Gotlib Bloch , Polish banker and warfare author (d. 1902 )
• August 5 ? John T. Raymond , American actor (d. 1887 )
• August 11 ? Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt , American poet (d. 1919 )
• August 13 ? Bishop Nicholas of Japan , Japanese Orthodox priest (d. 1912 )
• August 25 ? Bret Harte , American writer (d. 1902 )
• September 5 ? Justiniano Borgono , 37th Prime Minister of Peru (d. 1921 )
• September 7 ? Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1908 )
• September 10 ? Joseph Wheeler , American general, politician (d. 1906 )
• September 11 ? Fitz Hugh Ludlow , American author (d. 1870 )
• September 17 ? William Jackson Palmer , American founder of Colorado Springs, Colorado (d. 1909 )
• September 22 ? Fredrique Paijkull , Swedish educator, folk high school pioneer (d. 1899 )
• September 28 ? Thomas Crapper , English plumber, inventor (d. 1910 )
• September 30 ? Remigio Morales Bermudez , Peruvian politician, 56th President of Peru (d. 1894 )
• October 2 ? Benjamin Harris Babbidge , 19th Mayor of Brisbane (d. 1905 )
• October 4 ? Piet Cronje , Boer general (d. 1911 )
• October 5 ? Enomoto Takeaki , Japanese samurai , admiral (d. 1908 )
• October 6 ? Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz , German neuroanatomist (d. 1921 )
• October 15 ? James Tissot , French artist (d. 1902 )
• October 27 ? Thomas Gwyn Elger , English astronomer (d. 1897 )
• November 3 ? Elena Arellano Chamorro , Nicaraguan pioneer educator (d. 1911 )
• November 8 ? Milton Bradley , American businessman, inventor (d. 1911 )
• November 10 ? Andres Avelino Caceres , Peruvian general, twice President of Peru (d. 1923 )
• November 11 ? Thomas Bailey Aldrich , American poet, novelist (d. 1907 )
• November 18
  • W. S. Gilbert , British playwright, librettist best known for his collaborations with Arthur Sullivan (d. 1911 )
  • Maximo Gomez , Cuban military leader (d. 1905 )
  • Ding Ruchang , Chinese army officer, admiral (d. 1895 )
• November 22 ? Sir George Barham , English businessman, founder of Express County Milk Supply Company (d. 1913 )
• December 7 ? Frank Manly Thorn , American lawyer, politician, essayist and journalist (d. 1907 )
• December 18 ? Kawamura Sumiyoshi , Japanese admiral (d. 1904 )

• January 1 ? Bernhard Meyer , German physician, ornithologist (b. 1767 )
• January 11 ? John Molson , Canadian entrepreneur (b. 1763 )
• January 21 ? Ferenc Novak , Hungarian Slovene writer (b. 1791 )
• January 30 ? Betsy Ross , maker, designer of the first American flag (b. 1752 )
• January 31 ? John Cheyne , British physician, surgeon and author (b. 1777 )
• February 1 ? Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze , French chemist (b. 1758 )
• February 2 ? Madame Mere (Letizia Ramolino Bonaparte) mother of Napoleon I (b. 1749 )
• February 18 ? Cornplanter , native American (Seneca) chief (b. 1750 )
• February 21 ? William Van Mildert , last Prince Bishop of Durham , and founder of Durham University (b. 1765 )
• March 2 ? James Grant , Texas politician, physician and military participant in the Texas Revolution (b. 1793 )
• March 6 (at the Alamo)
  • James Bowie , Texan revolutionary (b. 1796 )
  • Davy Crockett , American frontiersman, Congressman and soldier (b. 1786 )
  • William Barret Travis , Texan revolutionary (b. 1809 )
  • James Bonham , Alamo defender (b. 1807 )
  • Micajah Autry , Alamo defender (b. 1793 )
  • Almaron Dickinson , American soldier (b. 1800 )
  • Jo?e Gregorio Esparza , Alamo defender (b. 1802 )
• March 16 ? Nathaniel Bowditch , American mathematician (b. 1773 )
• March 27 ? James Fannin , Texas revolutionary (b. 1804 )
• April 7 ? William Godwin , English writer (b. 1756 )
• April 21 ? Manuel Fernandez Castrillon , Mexican general (b. 1780 )
• April 29 ? Simon Kenton , American frontiersman, Revolutionary militia general (b. 1755 )
• May 13 ? John Littlejohn , American sheriff and Methodist preacher (b. 1756 )
• May 23 ? Edward Livingston , American jurist, statesman (b. 1764 )
• June 10 ? Andre-Marie Ampere , French physicist (b. 1775 )
• June 20 ? Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes , French cleric, constitutional theorist (b. 1748 )
• June 23 ? James Mill , British historian, economist, political theorist, and philosopher (b. 1773 )
• June 28 ? James Madison , 85, 4th President of the United States (b. 1751 )

• August 20 ? Agnes Bulmer , English poet (b. 1775 )
• August 21 ? Claude-Louis Navier , French engineer, physicist (b. 1785 )
• August 25 ? Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland , German physician (b. 1762 )
• September 5 ? Ferdinand Raimund , Austrian playwright (b. 1790 )
• September 12 ? Christian Dietrich Grabbe , German playwright (b. 1801 )
• September 14 ? Aaron Burr , 3rd Vice President of the United States (b. 1756 )
• September 17 ? Antoine Laurent de Jussieu , French botanist (b. 1748 )
• September 23
  • Maria Malibran , Spanish-French operatic singer (b. 1808 )
  • Andrey Razumovsky , Russian diplomat (b. 1752 )
• November ? Tenskwatawa , Shawnee prophet, political leader (b. 1775 )
• November 5 ? Karel Hynek Macha , Czech poet (b. 1810 )
• November 6 ? King Charles X of France (b. 1757 )
• November 16 ? Christiaan Hendrik Persoon , Dutch mycologist (b. 1761 )
• November 26 ? John Loudon McAdam , Scottish engineer, road-builder (b. 1756 )
• December 27 ? Stephen F. Austin , American pioneer (b. 1793 )

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]}

• "Chronicle of Events from August 1836 to September 1837" . American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge . Boston: Charles Bowen. 1838.