1736
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
Births - January 7 - Andrew Adams Chief justice of the Connecticut supreme court
- January 19 - James Watt, builder of steam engines
- January 29 - Joseph Louis Lagrange Italian mathematician
- February 3 - Johann Georg Albrechtsberger Austrian musician
- February 29 - Ann Lee, Shaker leader
- May 10 - George Steevens English Shakespereian commentator
- May 29 - Patrick Henry, American patriot
- June 7 - Fermín Lasuén Spanish missionary to America
- June 14 - Charles-Augustin de Coulomb French Physicist
- June 21 - Enoch Poor Brigadier General in the Continental Army (d. 1780)
- June 25 - John Horne Tooke English politician and philologist.
- September 10 - Carter Braxton Signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Virginia.
- September 15 - Jean Sylvain Bailly French astronomer
- October 27 - James Macpherson Scottish poet
- Arthur St. Clair (b. sometime between 1734 & 1736) 9th President of the United States under the Articles of Confederation
- Edward Waring British mathematician
- Juan Bautista de Anza Governor of the Spanish Province of New Mexico
- Antonio de León y Gama called "the first Mexican archeologist"
- Pierre le Pelley I Seigneur of Sark
- John Francis Edward Acton Prime minister of Naples
- Alexander Runciman Scottish painter
- Daniel Morgan American pioneer, soldier, Congressman from Virginia, Brigadier General in the Continental Army
- Robert Jephson Irish dramatist
- Claudius Smith notorious Cowboy Terrorist of the American Revolution
Deaths - February 7 - Stephen Gray First person to systematically experiment with electrical conduction
- March 16 - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, composer
- April 24 - Eugene of Savoy Noted French general
- September 16 - Gabriel Fahrenheit, inventor
- Ahmed III sultan of the Ottoman Empire
- Johann Albert Fabricius German scholar and bibliographer
- Captain John Porteous Captain of the City Guard of Edinburgh during the riots of 1736
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