1736 in Great Britain

1736 in Great Britain:

Other years

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Sport

1736 English cricket season

Events from the year 1736 in Great Britain.

Incumbents

• Monarch – George II
• Prime Minister – Robert Walpole (Whig)

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 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.

Undated

• George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney becomes the first Field Marshal of Great Britain.
• Gin Act 1736 attempts to curtail consumption of gin.
• 53 houses in the Northamptonshire town of Stony Stratford are consumed by fire.

Publications

• 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.

Births

• 19 January – James Watt, inventor (died 1819)
• 29 February – Ann Lee, founder of the Shakers (died 1784)
• 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)

Deaths

• 7 February – Stephen Gray, dyer, astronomer and scientist (born 1666)
• 25 March – Nicholas Hawksmoor, architect (born c. 1661)
• 7 September – Captain John Porteous, soldier (born c. 1695)
• undated – Bay Bolton, racehorse (born 1705)

References

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