1736

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
Russo-Turkish War, 1735-1739: Russian forces under Peter Lacy storm the Ottoman fortress of Azov.
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
A fire in the Russian city of St. Petersburg burns 2000 houses.
The English town of Stony Stratford is almost completely consumed by fire
Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab writes the Kitab at-tawhidt, marking the beginning of Wahhabism

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)
August 26 - Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, French geologist (d. 1790)
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)
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)

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