1736 in Great Britain

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1736 in Great Britain:

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Sport

1736 English cricket season

Events from the year 1736 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.

[edit] Incumbents

• Monarch - George II of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - Robert Walpole, Whig

[edit] Events

• 14 April - Porteous Riots in Edinburgh. Captain John Porteous orders his men to fire into the mob causing six deaths/
• 8 May - Marriage of Frederick, Prince of Wales and Augusta of Saxe-Gotha.
• 18 May - Repeal of laws against withcraft.^[1]
• 26 May - Battle of Ackia: British and Chickasaw Native Americans defeat French troops.
• 5 July - Captain Porteous found guilty of murder by the High Court of Justiciary.
• 27 July - Riots in east London protesting at Irish immigrants providing cheap labour.^[1]
• 7 September - Edinburgh crowd drags Captain Porteous out of his cell in Tolbooth prison and lynches him. The mob beats and hangs him to death.

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• Isaac Newton's book Method of Fluxions published.
• George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney becomes the first Field Marshal of Great Britain.
• 53 houses in the English town of Stony Stratford are consumed by fire.

[edit] Births

• 19 January - James Watt, inventor (died 1819)
• 10 May - George Steevens, literary critic (died 1800)
• 25 June - John Horne Tooke, politician and philologist (died 1812)
• 27 October - James Macpherson, poet (died 1796)
• date unknown - Alexander Runciman, painter (died 1785)

[edit] Deaths

• 7 February - Stephen Gray, dyer, astronomer, and scientist (born 1666)
• 25 March - Nicholas Hawksmoor, architect (born c.1661)
• 7 September - Captain John Porteous, captain (born c.1695)

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