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Civil War Timeline / Chronology for 1836 <<Previous year Next year>>
January 1 , 1836
James Birney begins publishing The Philanthropist , an abolition newspaper named for an earlier abolition newspaper for which Birney had written. The paper was published in Cincinnati, across the Ohio River from Kentucky, a slave state
Ohio
James Birney
March 3 , 1836
Charter of the Second Bank of the United States expires
Panic of 1837
March 28 , 1836
Roger B. Taney becomes Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court
Roger B. Taney
March 31 , 1836
The Winchester and Potomac Railroad opens from Harpers Ferry to Winchester, Va. – a distance of 32 miles.
May 26 , 1836
Southern members of the House get a "gag rule" restaining discussion of issues involving slavery. The House renews the gag rule each year until 1844
Robert Barnwell Rhett
gag rule
July 1 , 1836
Graduating from West Point in a class of 49 students, Joseph R. Anderson (4),
July 11 , 1836
The Specie Circular is issued by Treasury Secretary Levi Woodbury. Jackson and his administration felt it would check the speculation in land purchases that was rampant because of the "war" against the Second Bank of the United States
Specie Circular
Panic of 1837
Andrew Jackson
July 12 , 1836
The printing press used to publish The Philanthropist is destroyed by anti-abolitionists in Cincinnati
Ohio
James Birney
July 30 , 1836
Mob destroys The Philanthropist 's printing press in Cincinnati for a second time
Ohio
James Birney
August 15 , 1836
"Specie Circular" goes into effect
Specie Circular
Panic of 1837
Andrew Jackson
November 8 , 1836
Democrat Martin van Buren defeats Whigs William Henry Harrison, Hugh Lawson White, and Daniel Webster to become President
Martin Van Buren
Election of 1836
December 6 , 1836
[circa] Casting operations begin at Tredegar Iron Works
Virginia