1736

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Years:	1733 1734 1735 - 1736 - 1737 1738 1739

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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).

[edit] Events of 1736

January 26 - Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne.
February 12 - Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor weds Maria Theresa, mother of Marie Antoinette.
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.

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.

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.
Russo-Turkish War, 1735-1739: Russian forces under Peter Lacy storm the Ottoman fortress of Azov.
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 ends in Japan.
A fire in the Russian city of St. Petersburg burns 2000 houses.
The English town of Stony Stratford is almost completely consumed by fire.
Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab writes the Kitab at-tawhidt, marking the beginning of Wahhabism.

**1736 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1736 MDCCXXXVI
Ab urbe condita	2489
Armenian calendar	1185 ԹՎ ՌՃՁԵ
Bahá'í calendar	-108 – -107
Buddhist calendar	2280
Chinese calendar	4372/4432-11-19 (乙卯年十一月十九日) — to — 4373/4433-11-30 (丙辰年十一月三十日)
Ethiopian calendar	1728 – 1729
Hebrew calendar	5496 – 5497
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1791 – 1792
- Shaka Samvat	1658 – 1659
- Kali Yuga	4837 – 4838
Holocene calendar	11736
Iranian calendar	1114 – 1115
Islamic calendar	1148 – 1149
Japanese calendar	Kyōhō 21 (享保21年) — changed to — Genbun 1 (元文元年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2396 (皇紀2396年)
- Jōmon Era	11736
Julian calendar	1781
Korean calendar	4069
Thai solar calendar	2279
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July - Juan Bautista de Anza, Governor of the Spanish Province of New Mexico (died 1788)
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)

John Francis Edward Acton, Prime Minister of Naples (died 1811)
Robert Jephson, Irish dramatist (died 1803)
Daniel Morgan, American pioneer, Congressman from Virginia, and general (died 1802)
Pierre le Pelley I, Seigneur of Sark (died 1778)
Alexander Runciman, Scottish painter (died 1785)
Claudius Smith, American revolutionary (died 1779)
Edward Waring, British mathematician (died 1798)