1736

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  • 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

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