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1836 in the United Kingdom:

Other years

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Sport

1836 English cricket season

Events from the year 1836 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

• Monarch - William IV of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Whig

Events

• 2 March - First organised point-to-point horse race held, at Madresfield, Worcester.¹
• 23 May - Irish Constabulary Act 1836 provides central organisation for the police in Ireland.¹
• 9 June - London Working Men's Association founded; later a centre for Chartism.¹
• 17 August - Marriage Act 1836 permits marriages in noncomformist chapels, and establishes a Registrar General of Births, Marriages, and Deaths.¹
• 2 October - Naturalist Charles Darwin returns to Falmouth, Cornwall aboard the HMS Beagle after a 5-year journey collecting biological data he will later use to develop his theory of evolution.²
• 14 December - The first railway in London, from Deptford to London Bridge, opens.¹

Undated

• Chartists demand universal male suffrage.
• University of London founded.¹

Publications

• Serialisation of Charles Dickens' first novel The Pickwick Papers.

Births

• 16 February - Robert Halpin, mariner and cable layer (died 1894)
• 12 March - Isabella Beeton, cook and expert on household management (died 1865)
• 24 May - Joseph Rowntree, Quaker and philanthropist (died 1925)
• 8 July - Joseph Chamberlain, politician (died 1914)
• 7 September - Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1908)
• 18 November - W. S. Gilbert, dramatist (died 1911)

Deaths

• 21 January - Jack Small, cricketer (born 1765)
• 28 January - William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell, judge and jurist (born 1745)
• 31 January - John Cheyne, physician (born 1777)
• 1 February - John By, military engineer (born 1779)
• 4 February - William Gell, archaeologist (born 1777)
• 15 February - John Gillies, historian and classical scholar (born 1747)
• 22 February - John Clarke Whitfield, organist and composer (born 1770)
• 27 February - Elizabeth Whitlock, actress (born 1761)
• 31 March - Edward Southwell Ruthven, Irish politician and MP (born c. 1772)
• 7 April - William Godwin, journalist, political philosopher and novelist (born 1756)
• 23 June - James Mill, historian, economist, political theorist, and philosopher (born 1773)
• 18 July - James Henry Keith Stewart, Member of Parliament (born 1783)
• 28 July - Nathan Mayer Rothschild, financier (born 1777, Frankfurt am Main)
• 21 August - Edward Turner Bennett, zoologist and writer (born 1797)
• 21 August - William Cusac Smith, Baronet, judge (born 1766)
• 26 August - William Elford Leach, zoologist and marine biologist (born 1790)
• September - Theresa Berkley, dominatrix and brothel keeper (year of birth unknown)
• 2 September - William Henry, chemist (born 1775)
• 3 September - Daniel Mendoza, boxer (born 1764)
• 7 September - John Pond, astronomer (born 1767)
• 21 September - John Stafford Smith, composer, church organist, and early musicologist (born 1750)
• 3 October - James Blaikie, Lord Provost of Aberdeen (born 1786)
• 6 October - William Marsden, orientalist (born 1754)
• 11 October - William Knighton, Private Secretary to the Sovereign (born 1776)
• 17 October - George Colman the Younger, dramatist (born 1762)
• 13 November - Charles Simeon, clergyman (born 1759)
• 26 November - John Loudon McAdam, engineer and road-builder (born 1756)
• 4 December - Richard Westall, painter (born 1765)
• 30 December - James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose, nobleman and statesman (born 1755)

Unknown dates

• William Dawes, Royal Marine officer (born 1762)
• Nathan Drake, essayist and physician (born 1766)
• George Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon, nobleman, soldier and politician (born 1770)
• Dorothy Kilner, children's author (born 1755)
• Jeremy Lister, British Army officer (born 1752)
• John Mayne, poet (born 1759)
• Thomas Minton, potter (born 1765)
• Cesar Picton, slave turned businessman (born c. 1755, Senegal)
• John Rippon, Baptist minister (born 1751)
• Charles Wilkins, typographer and Orientalist (born 1749)

References

See also