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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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Events of 1736

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1736

January - June

★ January 26 - Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne.

★ February 12 - Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor weds Maria Theresa of Austria, ruler of the Habsburg Empire.

★ 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.


★ June 8 - Leonhard Euler writes to James Stirling describing the Euler-Maclaurin summation formula. He also solves the mathematical problem known as the seven bridges of Königsberg.

July - December

★ July - Russo-Turkish War, 1735-1739: Russian forces under Peter Lacy storm the Ottoman fortress of Azov.

★ 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.

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's book ''Method of Fluxions'' published.

★ Thomas Bayes publishes a defense of Isaac Newton's calculus.

★ 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.

★ 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.

★ 53 houses in the English town of Stony Stratford are consumed by fire.

★ Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab writes the ''Kitab at-tawhidt'', marking the beginning of Wahhabism.

Births

★ 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 3 - Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet, Prime Minister of Naples (died 1811)

★ 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)

★ July 6 - Daniel Morgan, American pioneer, Congressman from Virginia, and general (died 1802)

★ 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)

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★ Robert Jephson, Irish dramatist (died 1803)

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★ Pierre le Pelley I, Seigneur of Sark (died 1778)

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★ Alexander Runciman, Scottish painter (died 1785)

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★ Claudius Smith, American revolutionary (died 1779)
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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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