1836

Events 
 The Year without a Summer
 Pepsian discovered.
 Charles Dickens writes and publishes his first book, The Pickwick Papers.
 First railway opens in Australia, a carriage on rails, pushed by convicts at Port Arthur, Tasmania

Deaths
 March 6 – Davy Crockett, 49, American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician, execution (b. 1786)
 June 28 - James Madison, 85, fourth President of the United States, heart failure (b. 1751)