Events from the year1836 in theUnited Kingdom.

• Monarch –William IV
• Prime Minister –William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (Whig)
• Foreign Secretary –Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

• 8 February
  • TheLondon and Greenwich Railway opens its first section, the first railway inLondon.^[1]
  • Commencement of Hampden Controversy:Lord Melbourne's appointment ofRenn Dickson Hampden (a supporter oftoleration forDissenters) asRegius Professor of Divinity in theUniversity of Oxford splits theChurch of England intohigh church and liberal factions.^[2]
• 29 February – The first running of what would become known as theGrand NationalSteeplechase takes place atAintree Racecourse, near Liverpool, and is won byThe Duke.
• 2 March – First organised point-to-pointhorse race held, atMadresfield,Worcester.^[3]
• 23 April – Theworkhouse atHeckingham,Norfolk, becomes the first of several to suffer anarson attack in protest at the imposition of more restrictive conditions for the inmates under thePoor Law Amendment Act 1834.^[4]
• 23 May – Irish Constabulary Act provides central organisation for the police inIreland.^[3]
• June
  • Legal & General formed as the New Law Life Assurance Society by London lawyers.^[5]
  • Origin ofBelle Vue Zoological Gardens inManchester.
• 7 June –Huddersfield Choral Society formed.^[6]
• 9 June –London Working Men's Association founded; later a centre forChartism.^[3]
• 5 July – Main provisions of theDurham (County Palatine) Act 1836 (passed 21 June) come into effect: the previous secular jurisdiction of thePrince-bishop of Durham over theCounty Palatine of Durham is vested in the Crown and theCourt of the County of Durham is abolished; an Act of 17 August also removes secular jurisdictions of theArchbishop of York andBishop of Ely.
• 13 August
  • Tithe Commutation Act replaces the ancient system of payment oftithes in kind with monetary payments.
  • Lasthanging forrobbery, Lawrence Curtis atShrewsbury.^[7]
• 15 August –Liverpool Lime Street railway station opens in the centre ofLiverpool, the first grand terminus building in the world, replacing the smallerCrown Street station and accessed via a long railway tunnel fromEdge Hill in the east of the city.^[8]
• 17 August –Marriage Act establishescivil marriage and registration systems that permit marriages innonconformist chapels, and aRegistrar General of Births, Marriages, and Deaths.^[3]
• 20 August – An Act for enabling Persons indicted of Felony to make their Defence by Counsel or Attorney ("Prisoner's Counsel" or "Trial for Felonies" Act) requires provision ofdefence counsel for those charged with serious crimes^[7] (coming into force 1 October); also passing of an Act to prevent the Fact of a previous Conviction being given in Evidence to the Jury on the Case before them.
• 22 August –Midland Bank established inBirmingham as the Birmingham and Midland Bank.
• 31 August – Lasthanging forarson, Daniel Case atIlchester.^[7]
• 2 October – NaturalistCharles Darwin returns toFalmouth, Cornwall, aboardHMS Beagle after a 5-year journey collecting biological data he will later use to develop histheory of evolution.^[9]
• 15 October – First bishop nominated to theDiocese of Ripon, the first new diocese since establishment of theChurch of England.
• 28 November –University of London founded.^[3]
• 14 December – TheLondon and Greenwich Railway opens throughout fromLondon Bridge toDeptford.^[3]
• 27 December –Lewes avalanche inEast Sussex kills eight.^[10][11]

• R v Pritchard decided in the Exchequer of Pleas, aleading case inEnglish law on determining a defendant'sfitness to plead.^[12]
• First minting since 1800 of thefourpence coin (groat or "joey").

• Charles Dickens' first novelThe Pickwick Papers ("The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club..., edited by Boz"; first monthly part dated March).
• Frederick Marryat's anonymous novelMr Midshipman Easy.
• A. W. N. Pugin's treatise on the morality of Catholic Gothic architectureContrasts

• 16 February –Robert Halpin, mariner and cable layer (died 1894)
• 8 March –Harriet Samuel, businesswoman, founder of jewellery retailerH. Samuel (died 1908)^[13]
• 12 March –Isabella Beeton, journalist, writer on cookery and household management (died 1865)
• 24 May –Joseph Rowntree, chocolate manufacturer and Quaker philanthropist (died 1925)
• 9 June –Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, doctor and suffragist (died 1917)
• 8 July –Joseph Chamberlain, politician (died 1914)
• 7 September –Henry Campbell-Bannerman,Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1908)
• 26 September –Thomas Crapper, plumber, inventor (died 1910)
• 27 October –Thomas Gwyn Elger, astronomer (died 1897)
• 18 November –W. S. Gilbert, dramatist (died 1911)
• 22 November –George Barham, businessman, founder ofExpress County Milk Supply Company (died 1913)
• 7 December –John Wolfe Barry, architect and civil engineer (died 1918)

• 21 January –Jack Small, cricketer (born 1765)
• 28 January –William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell, judge (born 1745)
• 31 January –John Cheyne, physician (born 1777)
• 1 February –John By, military engineer (born 1779)
• 4 February –Sir William Gell, archaeologist (born 1777)
• 5 February –Dorothy Kilner, children's author (born 1755)
• 15 February –John Gillies, historian and classical scholar (born 1747)
• 21 February –William Van Mildert, lastPrince-bishop ofDurham and founder ofDurham University (born 1765)
• 22 February –John Clarke Whitfield, organist and composer (born 1770)
• 27 February –Elizabeth Whitlock, actress (born 1761)
• 14 March –John Mayne, Scottish-born poet (born 1759)
• 31 March –Edward Southwell Ruthven, Irish politician and MP (born c. 1772)
• 3 April –Jeremy Lister, British Army officer (born 1752)
• 7 April –William Godwin, journalist, political philosopher and novelist (born 1756)
• 20 April –Jemmy Wood, banker and miser, "the richest commoner in His Majesty's dominions" (born 1756)
• 13 May –Sir Charles Wilkins, orientalist and typographer (born 1749)
• 28 May –George Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon, nobleman, soldier and politician (born 1770)
• June –Cesar Picton, slave turned businessman (born c. 1755 in Senegal)
• 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 in Frankfurt am Main)
• 20 August –Agnes Bulmer, poet (born 1775)
• 21 August
  • Edward Turner Bennett, zoologist and writer (born 1797)
  • William Cusac Smith, Baronet, judge (born 1766)
• 25 August –William Elford Leach, zoologist and marine biologist (born 1791)
• 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)
• 6 September –Louisa Gurney Hoare, diarist and writer on education (born 1784)
• 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)
• 31 October –John Marshall, politician (born 1797)
• 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)
• 17 December –John Rippon, Baptist minister (born 1751)
• 30 December –James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose, nobleman and statesman (born 1755)

• William Dawes, Royal Marine officer (born 1762; died in Antigua)
• Nathan Drake, essayist and physician (born 1766)
• Thomas Minton, potter (born 1765)

• Burke, Edmund (1837)."Annual Register...1836".Dodsley's Annual Register. London:J.G. & F. Rivington: 80 v.

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