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.
Governors and lieutenant 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 [ edit ]
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 . 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 .[ 2] 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. 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 20 – Eli Whitney Blake, Jr. , scientist and academic (died 1895 ) April 27 – Charles Bendire , U.S. Army officer and ornithologist (died 1897 ) May 7 – Joseph Gurney Cannon , Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1903 to 1911 (died 1926 ) 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 ) 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 )