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Revision as of 18:03, 22 December 2007
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Template:C18YearInTopicX 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).
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
Gregorian calendar | 1736 MDCCXXXVI |
Ab urbe condita | 2489 |
Armenian calendar | 1185 ԹՎ ՌՃՁԵ |
Assyrian calendar | 6486 |
Balinese saka calendar | 1657–1658 |
Bengali calendar | 1143 |
Berber calendar | 2686 |
British Regnal year | 9 Geo. 2 – 10 Geo. 2 |
Buddhist calendar | 2280 |
Burmese calendar | 1098 |
Byzantine calendar | 7244–7245 |
Chinese calendar | 乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 4433 or 4226 — to — 丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 4434 or 4227 |
Coptic calendar | 1452–1453 |
Discordian calendar | 2902 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1728–1729 |
Hebrew calendar | 5496–5497 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1792–1793 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1657–1658 |
- Kali Yuga | 4836–4837 |
Holocene calendar | 11736 |
Igbo calendar | 736–737 |
Iranian calendar | 1114–1115 |
Islamic calendar | 1148–1149 |
Japanese calendar | Kyōhō 21 / Genbun 1 (元文元年) |
Javanese calendar | 1660–1661 |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 11 days |
Korean calendar | 4069 |
Minguo calendar | 176 before ROC 民前176年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | 268 |
Thai solar calendar | 2278–2279 |
Tibetan calendar | 阴木兔年 (female Wood-Rabbit) 1862 or 1481 or 709 — to — 阳火龙年 (male Fire-Dragon) 1863 or 1482 or 710 |
- 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)
- date unknown
- Robert Jephson, Irish dramatist (died 1803)
- Pierre le Pelley I, Seigneur of Sark (died 1778)
- Alexander Runciman, Scottish painter (died 1785)
- Claudius Smith, American revolutionary (died 1779)
- See also Category: 1736 births.
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)
- See also Category: 1736 deaths.