1736

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1700s 1710s 1720s – 1730s – 1740s 1750s 1760s
Years:	1733 1734 1735 – 1736 – 1737 1738 1739

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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

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