Admitted to the bar in 1836, he moved to Springfield, Illinois, and began to practice law under John T. Stuart, Mary Todd's cousin.

The Apiaceae was first described by John Lindley in 1836.

* 1836 – The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen

John Clements Wickham named the region " Port Darwin " in honour of their former shipmate Charles Darwin, who had sailed with them on the ship's previous voyage which had ended in October 1836.

* 1836 – John Cheyne ( physician ), British physician, surgeon and author ( b. 1777 )

* John Brewer Brown ( 1836 – 1898 ), U. S. representative ( D – MD, 1892 – 1893 )

* The third and fourth were recovered in 1836 by John Deane from the Mary Rose.

* 1799 – John Lowell, American philanthropist ( d. 1836 )

* 1836 – John MacAdam, British road builder ( b. 1756 )

Official settlement began on 28 December 1836, when the colony was proclaimed at The Old Gum Tree by Governor John Hindmarsh.

* 1756 – John Loudon McAdam, Scottish engineer and road builder ( d. 1836 )

These natural philosophers saw God as the first cause, and sought secondary causes to explain design in nature: the leading figure Sir John Herschel wrote in 1836 that by analogy with other intermediate causes " the origination of fresh species, could it ever come under our cognizance, would be found to be a natural in contradistinction to a miraculous process ".

* February 3 – John Cheyne ( physician ), British physician, surgeon and author ( d. 1836 )

* December 28 – John Molson, Canadian entrepreneur ( d. 1836 )

John Loudon McAdam ( 1756 – 1836 ) designed the first modern highways.

In the Senate in 1836, John C. Calhoun attempted to introduce a gag rule.

* John Lowell, Jr. ( philanthropist ) ( 1799 – 1836 ), son of Industrialist Francis Cabot Lowell and founder of the Lowell Institute

* John Lewis ( 1836 — 1928 ), founder of the British department store John Lewis, was born in Town Street in Shepton Mallet on 24 February 1836.

The abbey's next organ was built in 1836 by John Smith of Bristol, to a specification of thirty stops over three manuals and pedals.

There is much debate regarding the first official Grand National ; most leading published historians, including John Pinfold, now prefer the idea that the first running was in 1836 and was won by The Duke.

On January 14, 1836, Crockett and 65 other men signed an oath before Judge John Forbes to the Provisional Government of Texas for six months: " I have taken the oath of government and have enrolled my name as a volunteer and will set out for the Rio Grande in a few days with the volunteers from the United States.

His portraiture, in a style similar to Lawrence's, included Princess Victoria ( later Queen Victoria, for whom he was art teacher for eight years before his death on 4 December 1836 ), and Richard Ayton, a writer who collaborated with landscape artist William Daniell ( Westall's brother-in-law ).

Daniell cells, 1836.

The Daniell cell was invented in 1836 by John Frederic Daniell, a British chemist and meteorologist, and consisted of a copper pot filled with a copper sulfate solution, in which was immersed an unglazed earthenware container filled with sulfuric acid and a zinc electrode.

The percussion cap revolver was invented by Samuel Colt in 1836.

In 1836 an American scientist, Dr. David Alter, invented the first known American electric telegraph, in Elderton, Pennsylvania, one year before the Cooke and Wheatstone and the Morse telegraphs.

A noiseless match was invented in 1836 by the Hungarian János Irinyi, who was a student of chemistry.

Renowned English gunsmith William Greener invented the Greener bullet in 1836.

Faraday cages are named after the English scientist Michael Faraday, who invented them in 1836.

Inspired by the works of American scientist Joseph Henry and English scientist Michael Faraday, the circuit breaker was invented in 1836 by an American, Charles Grafton Page.

The induction coil was invented by the Irish scientist and Catholic priest Nicholas Callan in 1836 at the St. Patrick's College, Maynooth and improved by William Sturgeon and Charles Grafton Page.

* Jeremiah Burnham Tainter ( 1836 – 1920 ), engineer who invented the Tainter gate

In an evolution entirely different than the loafer, Chelsea boots were invented by J. Sparkes Hall for Queen Victoria in 1836.

Alexander Lagerman ( 1836 – 1904 ), a Swedish engineer that was employed by the Lundström brothers, invented the first fully automatic match machine.

In 1829, the accordion was invented in Vienna, and it had spread to Switzerland by 1836.

In 1836 Sturgeon established the journal Annals of Electricity, Magnetism and Chemistry, and in the same year he invented a galvanometer.

The low-powered copper Flobert cartridge was invented in 1836, as was the pinfire cartridge ( Lefaucheux ), although this required fixative work by Houiller in 1846 to produce a workable cartridge.

He invented the first induction coil in 1836.

The test that Moran was referring to was actually invented in 1836 by a Scottish chemist named James Marsh, who worked at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich.

The primary point of political contention involved the Republic of Texas, which, after declaring independence from Mexico in 1836, had asked to join the United States.

Daniel Read ( November 16, 1757 – December 4, 1836 ) was an American composer of the First New England School, and one of the primary figures in early American classical music.

Established by Manuel Pacaya – Samiria -- a leader of the Cocama peoples following the 1830 uprising at the Jesuit mission of Lagunas, Nauta soon became the primary commercial hub of the Peruvian selva baja ( known also as Omagua, or the Amazonian lowlands ) ( See William Smyth and Frederick Lowe, 1836: 204, 258 ).