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| c. 1835 |
| | | English artist Edward Lear begins a series of travels, sketching around the Mediterranean and in the Middle East | |
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| 1836 |
| | | Charles Barry wins the competition to design the new Houses of Parliament | |
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| 1836 |
| | | The inhabitants of the Mexican province of Texas declare their independence as a new republic | |
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| 1836 |
| | | 200 Texans, among them Davy Crockett, hold out for twelve days in San Antonio before being killed in the Alamo by a Mexican army | |
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| 1836 |
| | | Hendrik Potgieter sets off with some 200 Boers and their cattle at the start of the Great Trek to the north | |
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| 1836 |
| | | Sarah and Angelina Grimké join the abolitionist crusade, each publishing a powerful anti-slavery pamphlet in the same year | |
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| 1836 |
| | | 24-year-old Charles Dickens begins monthly publication of his first work of fiction, Pickwick Papers (published in book form in 1837) | |
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| 1836 |
| | | A site is selected for Adelaide and emigration begins from Britain to south Australia | |
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| 1836 |
| | | The Inspector General, a farce by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol satirising Russian offialdom, has tsar Nicholas I in the audience for the premiere | |
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| 1836 |
| | | Sam Houston destroys a Mexican army near the San Jacinto river, completing the seizure of Texas from Mexico | |
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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 | |
|  | Clifton Suspension Bridge
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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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| 1837 |
| | | After a victory at Vegkop, Boers massacre the inhabitants of a dozen Ndebele villages in secret dawn raids | |
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| 1837 |
| | | Piet Retief emerges as the new leader of the Great Trek, replacing Potgieter | |
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| 1837 |
| | | The 18-year-old Victoria comes to the throne in Britain, beginning the long Victorian era | |
|  | Winterhalter Queen Victoria (detail)
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| 1837 |
| | | Work begins on Charles Barry's spectacular design for London's new Houses of Parliament | |
|  | Houses of Parliament, c.1851
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| c. 1837 |
| | | The Whig party in Britain begin referring to themselves as Liberals | |
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| 1837 |
| | | Potgieter defeats the Ndebele at the Marico river and drives them north of the Limpopo | |
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| 1837 |
| | | Piet Retief reaches a provisional agreement with Dingaan, the Zulu leader, for a Boer settlement in southern Natal | |
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