1836

1836 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1836; MDCCCXXXVI
Ab urbe condita	2589
Armenian calendar	1285; ԹՎ ՌՄՁԵ
Assyrian calendar	6586
Balinese saka calendar	1757–1758
Bengali calendar	1243
Berber calendar	2786
British Regnal year	6 Will. 4 – 7 Will. 4
Buddhist calendar	2380
Burmese calendar	1198
Byzantine calendar	7344–7345
Chinese calendar	乙未年 (Wood Goat); 4533 or 4326; — to —; 丙申年 (Fire Monkey); 4534 or 4327
Coptic calendar	1552–1553
Discordian calendar	3002
Ethiopian calendar	1828–1829
Hebrew calendar	5596–5597
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1892–1893
- Shaka Samvat	1757–1758
- Kali Yuga	4936–4937
Holocene calendar	11836
Igbo calendar	836–837
Iranian calendar	1214–1215
Islamic calendar	1251–1252
Japanese calendar	Tenpō 7; (天保７年)
Javanese calendar	1763–1764
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4169
Minguo calendar	76 before ROC; 民前76年
Nanakshahi calendar	368
Thai solar calendar	2378–2379
Tibetan calendar	阴木羊年; (female Wood-Goat); 1962 or 1581 or 809; — to —; 阳火猴年; (male Fire-Monkey); 1963 or 1582 or 810

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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Charles Darwin

1836 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar).

Events

March 1 - Antonio García Gutiérrez's play El Trovador played for the first time
March 2 - Declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico.
March 6 - Battle of the Alamo (189 Texans against about 1600 Mexicans).
April 21 - Mexican forces under General Santa Anna defeated at San Jacinto, Texas.
May 15 - Francis Baily, during an eclipse of the sun, observes the phenomenon named after him as Baily's beads
October 2 - Charles Darwin returns to England aboard the HMS Beagle with biological data he will later use to develop his Theory of evolution.
October 31 - Bristol riot - see 1836 in the United Kingdom.
November - U.S. presidential election: Martin Van Buren defeats William Henry Harrison
December 28 - Proclamation of the colony of South Australia, now celebrated in the state of South Australia as Proclamation Day.
December 28 - Spain recognizes independence of Mexico.

Boers in South Africa begin the Great Trek across the Orange River.
First printed literature in Assyrian Neo-Aramaic is produced by Justin Perkins, an American Presbyterian missionary.

January 2 - Mendele Moykher Sforim, Russian Yiddish writer (d. 1917)
January 14 - Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (d. 1904)
January 27 - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer (d. 1895)
February 16 - Robert Halpin, Irish mariner and cable layer (d. 1894)
February 18 - Ramakrishna Paramhansa, Bengali religious leader (d. 1886)
February 21 - Léo Delibes, French composer (d. 1891)
February 24 - Winslow Homer, American artist (d. 1910)
March 20 - Sir Edward Poynter, French-born artist (d. 1919)
April 27 - Major Charles Bendire, U.S. Army captain and ornithologist (d. 1897)
May 27 - Jay Gould, American financier (d. 1892)
May 28 - Alexander Mitscherlich, German chemist (d. 1918)
May 31 - Jules Chéret, French printmaker (d. 1932)
June 2 - Mily Balakirev, Russian composer (d. 1910)
July 8 - Joseph Chamberlain, British politician (d. 1914)
July 9 - Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1908)
August 13 - Bishop Nikolai of Japan, Russian Orthodox priest (d. 1912)
August 24 - Susan Agnes Bernard, First Lady of Canada (d. 1920)
August 25 - Bret Harte, American writer (d. 1902)
September 11 - Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author (d. 1870)
October 15 - James Tissot, French artist (d. 1902)
November 11 - Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American poet and novelist (d. 1907)

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