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1736 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 ...
- 1736 in Great Britain
12 January – George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney becomes the...
- 1736 in architecture
The Burrough's Building at Peterhouse, Cambridge, England,...
- 1736 in Great Britain
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.
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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.
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.
