Timeline June 1836

Events in June 1836 4

• 1751 – 1836 James Madison 4th President — Father of the Constitution James Madison (Mar 16, 1751 – Jun 28, 1836) was the 4th President 1809-1817 and the primary author of the US Constitution and Bill of Rights. He led the nation through the War of 1812.
• 1760 – 1836 Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (1760-1836) Died 26 June 1836, aged 76 French army officer and composer who wrote "La Marseillaise" in 1792, which became the French national anthem. He died in relative poverty despite the song's lasting fame.
• 1775 – 1836 Andre-Marie Ampere (1775-1836) Died 10 June 1836, aged 61 French physicist and mathematician who founded the science of classical electrodynamics, now called electrodynamics. The SI unit of electric current, the ampere, is named in his honor.
• 1836 Arkansas admitted as a U.S. state Becomes the 25th state of the Union Arkansas entered the United States as the 25th state, having previously been organized as a territory. Its admission was part of the broader sectional balance between free and slave states.