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| 1836 |
| | | The Tolpuddle Martyrs are brought back to England from Australia after public protest leads to their sentences being remitted | |
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| 1836 |
| | | The Portuguese ban the shipping of slaves from the coast of Angola | |
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| 1836 |
| | | Hendrik Potgieter and the Boers, protected by a laager at Vegkop, hold off an attack by a large force of Ndebele tribesmen | |
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| 1836 |
| | | American professor William Holmes McGuffey writes the first of his immensely popular school reading books | |
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| 1836 |
| | | Work begins on the suspension bridge over the river Avon, at Clifton, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel | |
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| 1836 |
| | | HMS Beagle reaches Falmouth, in Cornwall, after a voyage of five years, and Charles Darwin brings with him a valuable collection of specimens | |
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| 1836 |
| | | In his essay, Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson sets out the fundamentals of the philolosphy of Transcendentalism | |
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| 1836 |
| | | Martin van Buren, previously vice-president to Andrew Jackson, wins the US presidential election on the Democratic ticket | |
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| 1836 |
| | | Louis Agassiz builds a hut on the Aar glacier in Switzerland and succeeds in recording gradual movement of the ice | |
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| 1837 |
| | | Alexander Pushkin dies from a stomach wound received in a duel with his brother-in-law, Georges d'Anthès | |
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