Also in 1936

• 7 of September - The last thylacine, a carnivorous marsupial named Benjamin, dies alone in its cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
• 14 of March - The first all-sound film version of Show Boat opens at Radio City Music Hall. (There had been a part-talkie, part-silent version of Show Boat in 1929.)
• 1 of October - Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain.