• The Texas Revolution reaches its climax. Mexican Generalissimo Antonio López de Santa Anna crushes the Texans at the lopsided Battle of the Alamo, only to be defeated in the Battle of San Jacinto by a Texan force led by Sam Houston. Santa Anna is captured in the second battle, and is forced to reliquish Texas.

These people were born in 1836:

• Japanese educator, statesman, and political theorist Kato Hiroyuki, the first president of Tokyo University.

These people died in 1836:

• James Madison, fourth President of the United States
• Legendary American frontiersman Davy Crockett, killed in the Battle of the Alamo.
• Legendary American frontiersman Jim Bowie, inventor of the Bowie kinfe, killed in the Battle of the Alamo.
• Texas patriot William Barret Travis, killed commanding the Texas forces in the Battle of the Alamo.
• American statesman and traitor Aaron Burr, former Vice President of the United States and killer of Alexander Hamilton.
• Canadian brewer John Molson.

1835 - 1836 - 1837

19th century

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