1736

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.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1700s  1710s  1720s  – 1730s –  1740s  1750s  1760s
Years:	1733 1734 1735 – 1736 – 1737 1738 1739

1736 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1736 MDCCXXXVI
Ab urbe condita	2489
Armenian calendar	1185 ԹՎ ՌՃՁԵ
Assyrian calendar	6486
Balinese saka calendar	1657–1658
Bengali calendar	1143
Berber calendar	2686
British Regnal year	9 Geo. 2 – 10 Geo. 2
Buddhist calendar	2280
Burmese calendar	1098
Byzantine calendar	7244–7245
Chinese calendar	乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 4432 or 4372     — to — 丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 4433 or 4373
Coptic calendar	1452–1453
Discordian calendar	2902
Ethiopian calendar	1728–1729
Hebrew calendar	5496–5497
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1792–1793
- Shaka Samvat	1657–1658
- Kali Yuga	4836–4837
Holocene calendar	11736
Igbo calendar	736–737
Iranian calendar	1114–1115
Islamic calendar	1148–1149
Japanese calendar	Kyōhō 21 / Genbun 1 (元文元年)
Javanese calendar	1660–1661
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4069
Minguo calendar	176 before ROC 民前176年
Nanakshahi calendar	268
Thai solar calendar	2278–2279
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

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: 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

Births

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Deaths

for more information, see Category:1736 deaths.