Timeline: POTMEER, Carel August

Our Family's Journey Through Time

1836 - 1838 (1 year)

	Date	Event(s)
1	1836	Feb 1836: The Alamo is surrounded by Santa Anna's army, in a 13-day ordeal. Feb 1836: Samuel Colt receives an American patent for the Colt revolver, the first revolving barrel multishot firearm. Mar 1836: The Battle of the Alamo ends; 189 Texans are slaughtered by about 1,600 Mexicans Oct 1836: Charles Darwin returns to Britain aboard the HMS Beagle with biological data he will later use to develop his theory of evolution 14 Oct 1836: Frederikus Nijhuis is born in Borne, Overijssel, Nederland.
2	1837	1837: Louis Daguerre develops the daguerreotype Daguerreotype is a direct photographic process without the capacity for duplication. 12 Jan 1837: Anna Elizabeth Dik is born in Altenberge, Kreis Steinfurt, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deustschland. May 1837: Samuel Morse patents the telegraph Jun 1837: Queen Victoria accedes to the throne of the United Kingdom
3	1838	1838: Women in Pitcairn are the first in the world to obtain and maintain the right to vote.[

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