1736

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1736 (MDCCXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday in the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday in the Julian calendar.

Events

• 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.
• May 26 – Battle of Ackia: British and Chickasaw Native Americans defeat French troops.
• September 7 – Edinburgh crowd drags John Porteous out of his cell in Tolbooth prison and lynches him
• 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

Births

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Deaths

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