1736 - Definition and Overview

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
• 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

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

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