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 |
| 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 |
- 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
- for more information, see Category:1736 births.
- for more information, see Category:1736 deaths.
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