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1736 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1736
MDCCXXXVI
Ab urbe condita2489
Armenian calendar1185
ԹՎ ՌՃՁԵ
Assyrian calendar6486
Balinese saka calendar1657–1658
Bengali calendar1143
Berber calendar2686
British Regnal year9 Geo. 2 – 10 Geo. 2
Buddhist calendar2280
Burmese calendar1098
Byzantine calendar7244–7245
Chinese calendar乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit)
4432 or 4372
    — to —
丙辰年 (Fire Dragon)
4433 or 4373
Coptic calendar1452–1453
Discordian calendar2902
Ethiopian calendar1728–1729
Hebrew calendar5496–5497
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1792–1793
 - Shaka Samvat1657–1658
 - Kali Yuga4836–4837
Holocene calendar11736
Igbo calendar736–737
Iranian calendar1114–1115
Islamic calendar1148–1149
Japanese calendarKyōhō 21 / Genbun 1
(元文元年)
Javanese calendar1660–1661
Julian calendarGregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar4069
Minguo calendar176 before ROC
民前176年
Nanakshahi calendar268
Thai solar calendar2278–2279
Tibetan calendar阴木兔年
(female Wood-Rabbit)
1862 or 1481 or 709
    — to —
阳火龙年
(male Fire-Dragon)
1863 or 1482 or 710
May 26: Battle of Ackia.

1736 (MDCCXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1736th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 736th year of the 2nd millennium, the 36th year of the 18th century, and the 7th year of the 1730s decade. As of the start of 1736, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events[]

January–March[]

  • January 12 – George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, becomes the first Field Marshal of Great Britain.
  • January 23 – The Civil Code of 1734 is passed in Sweden.
  • January 26 – Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne.
  • February 12 – Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor marries Maria Theresa of Austria, ruler of the Habsburg Empire.
  • March 8 – Nader Shah, founder of the Afsharid Dynasty, is crowned Shah of Iran on a date selected by court astrologers.[1]
  • March 31 – Bellevue Hospital is founded in New York.

April–June[]

  • April 14 – The Porteous Riots erupt in Edinburgh (Scotland), after the execution of smuggler Andrew Wilson, when town guard Captain John Porteous orders his men to fire at the crowd. Porteous is arrested later.
  • April 14 – German adventurer Theodor Stephan Freiherr von Neuhoff is crowned King Theodore of Corsica, 25 days after his arrival on Corsica on March 20.[2] His reign ends on November 5 when he flees the island.
  • April 19 – A fire in Stony Stratford, England, consumes 53 houses.[3]
  • April – The Genbun era begins in Japan. The era of Kyōhō Reforms ends.
  • May 8 – Frederick, Prince of Wales, marries Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha.
  • May 22 – King George II of Great Britain departs for Europe as part of his duties as Elector of Hanover; his wife, Caroline, Queen Consort rules on his behalf as the Regent for the last time until his return on January 14, 1736.[4]
  • May 26 – Battle of Ackia: British and Chickasaw Native Americans defeat French troops.
  • June 8 – Leonhard Euler writes to James Stirling describing the Euler–Maclaurin formula, providing a connection between integrals and sums.
  • June 19 – A French Academy of Sciences expedition, led by Pierre Louis Maupertuis, with Anders Celsius, begins work on measuring a meridian arc in Meänmaa, Finland.[5]
  • June 24 – Witchcraft Act of 1735 in Great Britain comes into effect, criminalizing claimants accusing people of practising witchcraft or of possessing magical powers, intended to end legal witch trials in the early modern period in the country.[6]

July–September[]

  • July 1 – Russo-Turkish War (1735–39): Russian forces under Peter Lacy storm the Ottoman fortress of Azov. [7]
  • August 12 – A fire in Saint Petersburg, capital of the Russian Empire, destroys 2,000 buildings, the city's post office, and several palaces.[8]
  • September 7 – An Edinburgh crowd drags John Porteous out of his cell in Tolbooth Prison, and lynches him.
  • September 29 – The Gin Act 1736 goes into effect, placing a steep tax on the sale of gin and license requirements for its sale, with the intent of reducing consumption of the liquor in Britain. Widely ignored, the Act is repealed in 1743. [9]

October–December[]

  • October 3 – French scientist Charles Marie de La Condamine and a team of surveyors begin the first measurements at the Equator to determine the exact meridian arc measurement of distance between points separated by one degree of longitude in order to make a precise calculation of the Earth's circumference. [10] The initial measurements, made in what is now Ecuador, last until November 3.
  • November 5 – King Theodore of Corsica flees the island after a reign of seven months and the kingdom reverts to French control. [2]
  • November 13 – Word of the discovery of silver, south of what is now the U.S.-Mexican border, reaches Sonora Governor Juan Bautista Anza and soon leads to prospectors coming to Nogales to find more silver. [11] Late in October, a Yaqui Indian prospector, Antonio Siraumea, had discovered large slabs of silver ("Las planchas de plata"), and at the Estancia Arizona, a ranch owned by Captain Bernardo de Urrea. The region, and later the U.S. territory, and state of Arizona are named for Urrea's ranch.
  • December 7 – Benjamin Franklin builds the first volunteer fire company in Philadelphia.
  • December 26 – Andrew Michael Ramsay gives an oration, in which he relates the heritage and internationalism of Freemasonry to that of the Crusades.

Date unknown[]

  • Neustrelitz becomes the capital of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
  • Bushehr is founded in Persia.
  • The Belgrade Fortress is completed.
  • One of the earliest records of use of a bathing machine is made at Scarborough, England.
  • Charles Marie de La Condamine, with François Fresneau Gataudière, makes the first scientific observations of rubber, in Ecuador.[12]
  • Leonhard Euler produces the first published proof of Fermat's "little theorem".[13]
  • Sir Isaac Newton's Method of Fluxions (1671), describing his method of differential calculus, is first published (posthumously) and Thomas Bayes publishes a defense of its logical foundations (anonymously).[14]
  • Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab writes the Kitab at-tawhidt, marking the beginning of Wahhabism.
  • The Haidamakas raid the shtetl of Pavoloch, killing 35.

Births[]

Li Ching-Yuen
James Watt
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
  • 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, philologist (d. 1812)
  • July – Juan Bautista de Anza, Governor of the Spanish Province of New Mexico (d. 1788)

Deaths[]

Prince Eugene of Savoy
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit

References[]

  1. ^ Daniel, Elton L. (2001). The History of Iran. Greenwood Press. p. 95.
  2. ^ a b Caird, L. H. (1899). The History of Corsica. London: T. Fisher Unwin. pp. 93–97.
  3. ^ The British Chronologist. 1789.
  4. ^ Rosse, J. Willoughby (1858). "George II". An Index of Dates, Comprehending the Principal Facts in the Chronology and History of the World, from the Earliest to the Present Time. London: Henry G. Bohn. p. 347.
  5. ^ Piippola, Takalo. "Degree measurements by de Maupertuis in the Tornionlaakso Valley 1736-1737". Retrieved May 6, 2012.
  6. ^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 215–216. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  7. ^ Chris Cook and Philip Broadhead, The Routledge Companion to Early Modern Europe, 1453-1763 (Taylor & Francis, 2012) p.126
  8. ^ "Fires, Great", in The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance, Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p50
  9. ^ W. H. Wilkins, Caroline, the Illustrious Queen-Consort of George II. and Sometime Queen-Regent: A Study of Her Life and Time, Volume 2 (Longmans, Green, 1901) p20
  10. ^ Oscar Peschel and Gustav Leipoldt, Physische Erdkunde: Nach den Hinterlassenen Manuscripten Oscar Peschel's (Physical Geography: According to Oscar Peschel's Surviving Manuscripts (Duncker & Humblot, 1879) p. 152
  11. ^ Carlos R. Herrera, Juan Bautista de Anza: The King's Governor in New Mexico (University of Oklahoma Press, 2015) p37
  12. ^ Journal du voyage fait par ordre du roi à l'équateur. Paris. 1751.
  13. ^ Theorematum Quorundam ad Numeros Primos Spectantium Demonstratio.
  14. ^ An Introduction to the Doctrine of Fluxions, and a Defence of the Mathematicians Against the Objections of the Author of the Analyst.
  15. ^ Baker, Christopher, ed. (2002). "Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista (1710-1736)". Absolutism and the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1720: A Biographical Dictionary. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. p. 297. ISBN 978-0-313-30827-7.
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