1736 - All About All

1736

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
• Anna I Empress of Russia, attacks Turkey
• 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 end in Japan
• The English town of Stony Stratford is almost completely consumed by fire
• Porteous Riots occur in Edinburgh Scotland
• Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab writes the Kitab at-tawhidt, marking the beginning of Wahhabism

Births

• January 7 - Andrew Adams, American judge (d. 1797
• January 19 - James Watt, Scottish inventor (d. 1819)
• January 25 - Joseph Louis Lagrange, Italian-born mathematician (d. 1813)
• February 3 - Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Austrian musician (d. 1809)
• February 29 - Ann Lee, American religious leader (d. 1784)
• May 10 - George Steevens, English literary critic (d. 1800)
• May 29 - Patrick Henry, American patriot (d. 1799)
• June 7 - Fermín Lasuén, Spanish missionary (d. 1803)
• June 14 - Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (d. 1806)
• June 21 - Enoch Poor, American general (d. 1780)
• June 25 - John Horne Tooke, English politician and philologist (d. 1812)
• July - Juan Bautista de Anza, Governor of the Spanish Province of New Mexico (d. 1788)
• September 10 - Carter Braxton, signer of the American Declaration of Independence (d. 1797)
• September 15 - Jean Sylvain Bailly, French astronomer (d. 1793)
• October 27 - James Macpherson, Scottish poet (d. 1796)
• John Francis Edward Acton, Prime Minister of Naples (d. 1811)
• Robert Jephson, Irish dramatist (d. 1803)
• Antonio de León y Gama, Mexican archeologist
• Daniel Morgan, American pioneer, Congressman from Virginia, and general (d. 1802)
• Pierre le Pelley I, Seigneur of Sark (d. 1778)
• Alexander Runciman, Scottish painter (d. 1785)
• Claudius Smith, American revolutionary (d. 1779)
• Edward Waring, British mathematician (d. 1798)

Deaths

• January 31 - Filippo Juvara, Italian architect (b. 1678)
• February 7 - Stephen Gray, English dyer, astronomer, and scientist (b. 1666)
• March 16 - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer (b. 1710)
• March 25 - Nicholas Hawksmoor, British architect
• April 24 - Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (b. 1663)
• April 30 - Johann Albert Fabricius, German scholar and bibliographer (b. 1668)
• September 16 - Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist and inventor (b. 1686)
• December 10 - António Manoel de Vilhena, Portuguese ruler of Malta (b. 1663)
• December 28 - Antonio Caldara, Italian composer (b. 1670)
• Ahmed III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1637)
• Captain John Porteous, Scottish captain