1736
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| Centuries: | 17th century - 18th century - 19th century |
| Decades: | 1700s 1710s 1720s - 1730s - 1740s 1750s 1760s |
| Years: | 1733 1734 1735 - 1736 - 1737 1738 1739 |
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| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Countries: Canada |
| Great Britain - Mexico |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works |
Year 1736 (MDCCXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).
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[edit] Events of 1736
[edit] January - June
- January 26 - Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne.
- February 12 - Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor weds Maria Theresa, mother of Marie Antoinette.
- April 14 - Porteous Riots erupt in Edinburgh after execution of a smuggler Andrew Wilson when town guard captain John Porteous orders his men to fire at the crowd. Porteous is arrested later.
- 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.
[edit] July - December
- September 7 - Edinburgh crowd drags John Porteous out of his cell in Tolbooth prison and lynches him.
- December 7 - Ben Franklin builds the first volunteer fire company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
[edit] Undated
- 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.
- Russo-Turkish War, 1735-1739: Russian forces under Peter Lacy storm the Ottoman fortress of Azov.
- 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 ends in Japan.
- A fire in the Russian city of St. Petersburg burns 2000 houses.
- The English town of Stony Stratford is almost completely consumed by fire.
- Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab writes the Kitab at-tawhidt, marking the beginning of Wahhabism.
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1736 MDCCXXXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2489 |
| Armenian calendar | 1185 ԹՎ ՌՃՁԵ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -108 – -107 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2280 |
| Chinese calendar | 4372/4432-11-19 (乙卯年十一月十九日) — to —
4373/4433-11-30(丙辰年十一月三十日) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1728 – 1729 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5496 – 5497 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1791 – 1792 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1658 – 1659 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4837 – 4838 |
| Holocene calendar | 11736 |
| Iranian calendar | 1114 – 1115 |
| Islamic calendar | 1148 – 1149 |
| Japanese calendar | Kyōhō 21 (享保21年) — changed to —
Genbun 1(元文元年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2396 (皇紀2396年) |
| - Jōmon Era | 11736 |
| Julian calendar | 1781 |
| Korean calendar | 4069 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2279 |
- January 7 - Andrew Adams, American judge (died 1797)
- January 19 - James Watt, Scottish inventor (died 1819)
- January 25 - Joseph Louis Lagrange, Italian-born mathematician (died 1813)
- February 3 - Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Austrian musician (died 1809)
- February 29 - Ann Lee, American religious leader (died 1784)
- May 10 - George Steevens, English literary critic (died 1800)
- May 29 - Patrick Henry, American patriot (died 1799)
- June 7 - Fermín Lasuén, Spanish missionary (died 1803)
- June 14 - Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (died 1806)
- June 21 - Enoch Poor, American general (died 1780)
- June 25 - John Horne Tooke, English politician and philologist (died 1812)
- July - Juan Bautista de Anza, Governor of the Spanish Province of New Mexico (died 1788)
- August 26 - Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, French geologist (died 1790)
- September 10 - Carter Braxton, signer of the American Declaration of Independence (died 1797)
- September 15 - Jean Sylvain Bailly, French astronomer (died 1793)
- October 27 - James Macpherson, Scottish poet (died 1796)
[edit] Unknown dates
- John Francis Edward Acton, Prime Minister of Naples (died 1811)
- Robert Jephson, Irish dramatist (died 1803)
- Daniel Morgan, American pioneer, Congressman from Virginia, and general (died 1802)
- Pierre le Pelley I, Seigneur of Sark (died 1778)
- Alexander Runciman, Scottish painter (died 1785)
- Claudius Smith, American revolutionary (died 1779)
- Edward Waring, British mathematician (died 1798)
- See also Category: 1736 births.
[edit] Deaths
- January 31 - Filippo Juvara, Italian architect (born 1678)
- February 7 - Stephen Gray, English dyer, astronomer, and scientist (born 1666)
- March 16 - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer (born 1710)
- March 25 - Nicholas Hawksmoor, British architect (born c.1661)
- April 24 - Prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (born 1663)
- April 30 - Johann Albert Fabricius, German scholar and bibliographer (born 1668)
- September 16 - Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist and inventor (born 1686)
- December 10 - António Manoel de Vilhena, Portuguese ruler of Malta (born 1663)
- December 28 - Antonio Caldara, Italian composer (born 1670)
- Ahmed III, Ottoman Sultan (born 1673)
- Captain John Porteous, Scottish captain (born c.1695)
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- See also Category: 1736 deaths.
