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 theseven bridges of Königsberg
Anna I Empress of Russia, attacks Turkey
Frederick, Prince of Wales weds Augusta of Saxe-Gotha
Neustrelitz Becomes the capital of Mecklinberg - Sterlitz
Genbun era begins in Japan
Duke of Argyll becomes the first Field Marshal of great britan
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

January 7 - Andrew Adams Chief justice of the Conneticut 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 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
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, and Congressman from Virginia. He was a Brigadier General in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War
Robert Jephson Irish dramatist

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
James Stanley, 10th Earl of Derby
Captain John Porteous Captain of the City Guard of Edinburgh during the riots of 1736