1736 in Great Britain

Events from the year 1736 in Great Britain.

Incumbents

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 witchcraft.^[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.
c. October - Winchester County Hospital, established by Prebendary Alured Clarke, the first voluntary general hospital in the English provinces, begins to function in Hampshire.

George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney becomes the first Field Marshal of Great Britain.
Gin Act attempts to curtail consumption of gin.
53 houses in the Northamptonshire town of Stony Stratford are consumed by fire.

Sir Matthew Hale's legal treatise Historia Placitorum Coronæ; or The History of the Pleas of the Crown (posthumous).^[2]
Isaac Newton's book Method of Fluxions.

↑ 1.0 1.1 Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 215–216. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
↑ Hostettler, John (2002). The Red Gown: the Life and Works of Sir Matthew Hale. Chichester: Barry Rose Law Publishers. p. 151. ISBN 1-902681-28-2.