What is 1736?
{{Year nav|1736}} {{Year in various calendars|1736}} {{Year article header|1736}} == 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]]: [[Great Britain|British]] and [[Chickasaw]] Native Americans defeat [[France|French]] troops. * [[September 7]] – Edinburgh crowd drags John Porteous out of his cell in [[Tolbooth prison]] and [[lynching|lynches]] him * A French expedition led by [[Pierre Louis Maupertuis]] is sent by King [[Louis XV of France|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'', [[wikt:namesake|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]] {{births}} {{deaths}} [[Category:1736| ]]