1736

Template:Use mdy dates Template:Year dab Template:Year nav

Template:C18 year in topic

Template:Year article header

Events

January–March

January 12 – George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, becomes the Second 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 at the Augustinian Church in Vienna.
March 8 – Nader Shah, founder of the Afsharid dynasty, is crowned Shah of Iran on a date selected by court astrologers.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
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.
- German adventurer Theodor Stephan Freiherr von Neuhoff is crowned King Theodore of Corsica, 25 days after his arrival on Corsica on March 20.<ref name=Corsica>Template:Cite book</ref> His reign ends on November 5 when he flees the island.
April 19 – A fire in Stony Stratford, England, consumes 53 houses.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
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 disconnection 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
June 24 – Witchcraft Act 1735 (9 Geo. 2. c. 5) 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.<ref name=CBH>Template:Cite book</ref>

July–September

July 1 – Russo-Turkish War (1735–39): Russian forces under Peter Lacy storm the Ottoman fortress of Azov. <ref>Chris Cook and Philip Broadhead, The Routledge Companion to Early Modern Europe, 1453-1763 (Taylor & Francis, 2012) p.126 </ref>
August 12 – A fire in Saint Petersburg, capital of the Russian Empire, destroys 2,000 buildings, the city's post office, and several palaces.<ref>"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</ref>
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. <ref>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</ref>
September 30 – The Lebanese Council of 1736 begins, a major turning point in the reform of the Maronite Church. In the following three days, the assembled Maronite and Latin clergy presided by Yusuf ibn Siman as-Simani discuss various reforms and elaborate rules and canons.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

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. <ref>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</ref> The initial measurements of this French Geodesic Mission to the Equator, made in what is now Ecuador, last until November 3. The same year the French Geodesic Mission to Lapland took place. Both confirm Isaac Newton's prediction that the Figure of the Earth is flattened at the poles.
November 5 – King Theodore of Corsica flees the island after a reign of seven months and the kingdom reverts to Genoese control. <ref name=Corsica/>
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. <ref>Carlos R. Herrera, Juan Bautista de Anza: The King's Governor in New Mexico (University of Oklahoma Press, 2015) p37</ref> 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 Template:Ill. 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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Leonhard Euler produces the first published proof of Fermat's "little theorem".<ref>Theorematum Quorundam ad Numeros Primos Spectantium Demonstratio.</ref>
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).<ref>An Introduction to the Doctrine of Fluxions, and a Defence of the Mathematicians Against the Objections of the Author of the Analyst.</ref>
Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab writes the Kitab at-tawhidt, marking the beginning of Wahhabism.
The Haidamakas raid the shtetl of Pavoloch, killing 35.