1836 facts for kids

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1800s  1810s  1820s  – 1830s –  1840s  1850s  1860s
Years:	1833 1834 1835 – 1836 – 1837 1838 1839

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, American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician (b. 1786)