Decades: 1680s 1690s 1700s 1710s 1720s - 1730s - 1740s 1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s

Years: 1731 1732 1733 1734 1735 - 1736 - 1737 1738 1739 1740 1741

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Year in topic 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Monarchs/Presidents

Events

• January 26 - Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne.
• february 12 - Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor weds Maria Theresa, mother of Marie Antoinette
• 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.
• 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 theseven bridges of Königsberg
• Anna I Empress of Russia, attacks Turkey
• Frederick, Prince of Wales weds Augusta of Saxe-Gotha
• Neustrelitz Becomes the capital of Mecklinberg - Sterlitz
• 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

• 1736 in literature
• 1736 in science

• January 7 - Andrew Adams Chief justice of the Connecticut supreme court
• January 19 - James Watt, builder of steam engines
• January 29 - Joseph Louis Lagrange Italian mathematician
• February 3 - Johann Georg Albrechtsberger Austrian musician
• February 29 - Ann Lee, Shaker leader
• May 10 - George Steevens English Shakespereian commentator
• May 29 - Patrick Henry, American patriot
• June 7 - Fermín Lasuén Spanish missionary to America
• June 14 - Charles-Augustin de Coulomb French Physicist
• June 21 - Enoch Poor Brigadier General in the Continental Army
• June 25 - John Horne Tooke English politician and philologist.
• September 10 - Carter Braxton Signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Virginia.
• September 15 - Jean Sylvain Bailly French astronomer
• October 27 - James Macpherson Scottish poet
• Arthur St. Clair (b. sometime between 1734 & 1736) 9th President of the United States under the Articles of Confederation
• Edward Waring British mathematician
• Juan Bautista de Anza Governor of the Spanish Province of New Mexico
• Antonio de León y Gama called "the first mexican archeologist"
• Pierre le Pelley I Seigneur of Sark
• John Francis Edward Acton Prime minister of Naples
• Alexander Runciman Scottish painter
• Daniel Morgan American pioneer, soldier, and Congressman from Virginia. He was a Brigadier General in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War
• Robert Jephson Irish dramatist
• Archibald Erskine, 7th Earl of Kellie
• John Stewart, 7th Earl of Galloway
• William Jerningham, 7th Baron Stafford
• James Stanley, 10th Earl of Derby, 6th Baron Strange
• Charles Agar, 1st Earl of Normanton
• James Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale
• Peter King, 6th Baron King
• Anthony Preston, 11th Viscount Gormanston
• William Willoughby Cole, 1st Earl of Enniskillen

• February 7 - Stephen Gray First person to systematically experiment with electrical conduction
• March 16 - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, composer
• April 24 - Eugene of Savoy Noted French general
• September 16 - Gabriel Fahrenheit, inventor
• Ahmed III sultan of the Ottoman Empire
• Johann Albert Fabricius German scholar and bibliographer
• James Stanley, 10th Earl of Derby
• Captain John Porteous Captain of the City Guard of Edinburgh during the riots of 1736
• Thomas Fane, 6th Earl of Westmorland
• Alexander Lindsay, 4th Earl of Balcarres
• William Byron, 4th Baron Byron
• Alexander Murray, 4th Lord Elibank
• Richard Butler, 7th Viscount Mountgarret
• Walter Chetwynd, 1st Viscount Chetwynd

• China - Qianlong Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (reigned from October 18, 1735 to February 9, 1796)
• France - Louis XV King of France (reigned from 1715 to 1774)
• Great Britain - George II King of Great Britain (reigned from June 11, 1727 to October 25, 1760)
• Saxony - Frederick Augustus II Elector of Saxony (from 1733 to 1763) (also King of Poland)
• Persia - Nadir Shah Ruled 1736-1747
• Isle of Man - James Murray 1736-1765