1736

Years:
1733 1734 1735 – 1736 – 1737 1738 1739

Decades:
1700s 1710s 1720s – 1730s – 1740s 1750s 1760s

Centuries:
17th century – 18th century – 19th century

1736 in topic:
Arts
Architecture - Literature - Music
Other topics
Canada – Science

Lists of leaders:
Colonial governors - State leaders

Events

January 26 – Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne.
february 12 – Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor weds Maria Theresa, mother of Marie Antoinette
May 8 – Marriage of Frederick, Prince of Wales and Augusta of Saxe-Gotha.
May 26 – Battle of Ackia: British and Chickasaw Native Americans defeat French troops.
A French expedition led by Pierre Louis Maupertuis is sent by King Louis XV to Lapland to measure the length of a degree of the meridian, and proves that the Earth is flattened at the poles
Real Arissona, namesake of the U.S. state Arizona is founded in what is now that state.
Isaac Newton Publishes his Method of Fluxions
Thomas Bayes publishes a defense of Isaac Newton's calculus
Leonhard Euler solves the mathematical problem known as the seven bridges of Königsberg
Anna I Empress of Russia, attacks Turkey

Neustrelitz becomes the capital of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Genbun era begins in Japan
George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney becomes the first Field Marshal of great Britain
Bushehr is founded in Persia
British Witchcraft Act is reformed, eliminating capital punishment for Witches, and instituting fines and jail time for claiming to be a witch or sorcerer
First recorded use of a Bathing machine
The Belgrade fortress is completed
The era of Kyoho Reforms end in Japan
The English town of Stony Stratford is almost completely consumed by fire
Porteous Riots occur in Edinburgh Scotland
Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab writes the Kitab at-tawhidt, marking the beginning of modern Islamic fundamentalism

January 7 – Andrew Adams, American judge (d. 1797
January 19 – James Watt, Scottish inventor (d. 1819)
January 29 – Joseph Louis Lagrange, Italian mathematician (d. 1813)
February 3 – Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Austrian musician (d. 1809)
February 29 – Ann Lee, American religious leader (d. 1784)
May 10 – George Steevens, English literary critic (d. 1800)
May 29 – Patrick Henry, American patriot (d. 1799)
June 7 – Fermín Lasuén, Spanish missionary (d. 1803)
June 14 – Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (d. 1806)
June 21 – Enoch Poor, American general (d. 1780)
June 25 – John Horne Tooke, English politician and philologist (d. 1812)
July – Juan Bautista de Anza, Governor of the Spanish Province of New Mexico (d. 1788)
September 10 – Carter Braxton, signer of the American Declaration of Independence (d. 1797)
September 15 – Jean Sylvain Bailly, French astronomer (d. 1793)
October 27 – James Macpherson, Scottish poet (d. 1796)
John Francis Edward Acton, Prime Minister of Naples (d. 1811)
Robert Jephson, Irish dramatist (d. 1803)
Antonio de León y Gama, Mexican archeologist
Daniel Morgan, American pioneer, Congressman from Virginia, and general (d. 1802)
Pierre le Pelley I, Seigneur of Sark (d. 1778)
Alexander Runciman, Scottish painter (d. 1785)
Claudius Smith, American revolutionary (d. 1779)
Edward Waring, British mathematician (d. 1798)

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