Page 3: Historical Events In 1836

May 16   Edgar Allan Poe marries his 13-year-old cousin Virginia   

May 17   Joseph Norman Lockyer, discoverer (Helium)/founder (Nature magazine)   

May 18   Isidor Vorobchievici, composer   

May 22   Felix Mendelssohn's oratorium "St Paul," premieres in Dusseldorf   

May 27   Edwin Gray Lee, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1870.   

May 28   Anton Reicha, composer, dies at 66.   

May 31   HMS Beagle anchors in Simons Bay, Cape of Good Hope.   

Jun 01   Charles Darwin returns to Capetown.   

Jun 06   Antons Klemens Theodor, king of Saksen (1827-36), dies at 80.   

Jun 09   Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, 1st woman mayor in England (Aldeburgh)   

Jun 10   Yamaoka Tesshu, Japanese swordsman/master of kendo   

Jun 14   Thomas Wilberforce Egan, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers).   

Jun 15   Arkansas is recorded as becoming 25th state.   

Jun 15   Arkansas is recorded as becoming the 25th state admitted to the U.S.   

Jun 16   London Working Men's Assn forms.   

Jun 18   HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leave South-Africa   

Jun 26   Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, author/composer (Marseillaise), dies.   

Jun 28   James Madison, 4th US pres (1809-17), dies in Montpelier Va at 85.   

Jul 02   Henry Eugene Davies, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1894.   

Jul 04   Wisconsin Territory formed   

Jul 04   Wisconsin Territory forms.   

Jul 08   HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Saint-Helena.   

Jul 08   Joseph Chamberlain, British minister of Commerce/Colonies   

Jul 11   Carlos Gomez, composer   

Jul 13   US patent #1 (after 9957 unnumbered patents), for locomotive wheels.   

Jul 19   HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Ascension   

Jul 20   Charles Darwin climbs Green Hill on Ascension.   

Jul 20   Thomas C Allbutt, English physiologist (Diseases of the Heart)   

Jul 21   1st Canadian RR opens, between Laprairie and St John, Quebec.   

Jul 21   The inaugural Canadian RR opens, between Laprairie and St John, Quebec.   

Jul 26   Jose Melchor Gomiz y Colomer, composer, dies at 45.   

Jul 27   Adelaide, South Australia founded.   

Jul 29   Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris   

Jul 30   1st English newspaper published in Hawaii   

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Jan 02   Queen emma of hawaii: Consort of king kamehameha iv   

Jan 02   Mendele moykher sforim: Jewish writer   

Jan 03   Sakamoto ryoma: Japanese revolutionary   

Jan 08   Fannie m jackson: Pioneer & educator, 1st us black woman college grad   

Jan 08   Lawrence alma tadema: Dutch/british painter/husband of laura epps   

Jan 10   Charles ingalls: Father of laura ingalls wilder   

Jan 14   [hugh] judson kilpatrick: Mjr gen (union volunteers), died in 1881   

Jan 14   Henri fantin-latour: French painter    

Jan 03   Friedrich witt: Composer,    

Jan 11   John molson: Canadian brewer (b. 1763)   

Jan 30   Betsy ross: American seamstress (b. 1752)   

Feb 22   John clarke-whitfeld: Composer,    

Mar 06   Davy crockett: Us pioneer (alamo), killed in battle at 49   

Mar 27   James fannin: Texas revolutionary (b. 1804)   

Apr 07   William godwin: English political writer (b. 1756)   

Apr 20   Johan i jozef: Monarch of liechtenstein/fieldmarshal,