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Wikipedia.
Events:
February 23 - The siege of the Alamo begins in San Antonio, Texas.
February 24 - Samuel Colt receives a patent for the Colt revolver
March 2 - Declaration of independence of Texas from Mexico.
March 5 - Samuel Colt makes the first pistol (.34-caliber).
March 6 - After a 13-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 189 Texas
volunteers defending the Alamo are defeated and the fort taken.
March 27 - Texas Revolution: Goliad massacre - Santa Ana orders the Mexican army to kill
about 400 Texans at Goliad, Texas.
May 15 -
Francis Baily, during an eclipse of the sun, observes the phenomenon named after
him as Baily's beads.
June 15 - Arkansas is admitted as the 25th U.S. state.
July 11 - President Andrew Jackson issues the Specie Circular, beginning the failure of the
land speculation economy that would lead to the Panic of 1837.
September 1 - Narcissa Whitman, one of the first white woman to settle west of the Rocky
Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Washington.
September 5 - Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.
October 2 - Naturalist Charles Darwin returns to Falmouth, England aboard the HMS
Beagle after a 5-year journey collecting biological data he will later use to develop his theory
of evolution.
November -
Martin Van Buren defeats William Henry Harrison in the U.S. presidential election.
December 10 - Emory College, the forerunner of Emory University, is chartered in Oxford,
Georgia.
Births:
January 2 -
Mendele Moykher Sforim, writer († 1917).
January 14 -
Henri Fantin-Latour, painter († 1904).
January 27 -
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, writer († 1895).
January 29 -
Willemina van der Vlugt.
February 24 -
Winslow Homer, artist († 1910).
May 14 -
Tannetje Wandemaker.
May 18 -
Maria Jacoba van den Houten.
May 27 -
Jay Gould, American financier († 1892).
May 28 -
Aaron Jacob Troost.
May 28 -
Alexander Mitscherlich, chemist († 1918).
June 2 -
Mily Balakirev, composer († 1910).
June 10 -
Cornelis van den Houten.
June 12 -
Jacob Quant.
July 8 -
Joseph Chamberlain, British politician († 1914).
July 9 -
Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
July 14 -
Jacob van den Houten.
July 14 -
Lena Rotte.
August 13 -
Cornelis van der Werf.
August 24 -
Susan Agnes Bernard, future First Lady of Canada († 1920).
August 30 -
Maria van den Houten.
October 17 -
Josina van den Houten.
October 22 -
Stoffelina van den Houten.
October 29 -
Gerrit van den Houten.
November 19 -
Maarten van den Houten.
Sri Ramakrishna († 1886).
Deaths:
January 7 -
John Molson, Canadian entrepreneur.
February 3 -
Hugo Hartman.
Februari 13 -
Tannetje van den Houten.
March 27 -
Jannetje van den Houten.
June 28 -
James Madison, Fourth President of the United States.
November 5 -
Karel Hynek Mácha, poet.
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