1836
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1836 (MDCCCXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1836th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 836th year of the 2nd millennium, the 36th year of the 19th century, and the 7th year of the 1830s decade. As of the start of 1836, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

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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)
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