1836 in the United Kingdom

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.
* 23 May - Irish Constabulary Act 1836 provides central organisation for the police in Ireland.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 260-261|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
* 9 June - London Working Men's Association founded; later a centre for Chartism.
* 17 August - Marriage Act 1836 permits marriages in noncomformist chapels, and establishes a Registrar General of Births, Marriages, and Deaths.
* 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.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
* 14 December - The first railway in London, from Deptford to London Bridge, opens.

Undated

* Chartists demand universal male suffrage.
* University of London founded.

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

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