1736

Year 1736 () was a (link will display the full calendar) of the  (or a  of the 11-day slower ).

January - June

 * - abdicates his throne.
 * - weds, ruler of the Habsburg Empire.
 * - erupt in  after execution of a smuggler Andrew Wilson when  captain  orders his men to fire at the crowd. Porteous is arrested later.
 * - Marriage of and.




 * - : and  Native Americans defeat  troops.
 * - writes to James Stirling describing the Euler-Maclaurin summation formula. He also solves the mathematical problem known as the.

July - December

 * July - : Russian forces under storm the Ottoman fortress of.
 * - Edinburgh crowd drags out of his cell in  and  him.
 * - builds the first  fire company in.

Undated

 * A French expedition led by is sent by King  to  to measure the length of a degree of the, and proves that the  is flattened at the poles.
 * Real Arissona, namesake of the U.S. state is founded in what is now that state.
 * 's book  published.
 * publishes a defense of 's.
 * becomes the capital of.
 * era begins in.
 * becomes the first of.
 * is founded in.
 * First recorded use of a.
 * The is completed.
 * The era of ends in.
 * A fire in the n city of burns 2000 houses.
 * 53 houses in the English town of are consumed by fire.
 * writes the Kitab at-tawhidt, marking the beginning of.

Births

 * -, American judge (died )
 * -, Scottish inventor (died )
 * -, Italian-born mathematician (died )
 * -, Austrian musician (died )
 * -, American religious leader (died )
 * -, English literary critic (died )
 * -, American patriot (died )
 * -, Prime Minister of Naples (died )
 * -, Spanish missionary (died )
 * -, French physicist (died )
 * -, American general (died )
 * -, English politician and philologist (died )
 * July -, Governor of the Spanish Province of New Mexico (died )
 * -, American pioneer, Congressman from Virginia, and general (died )
 * -, French geologist (died )
 * -, signer of the American Declaration of Independence (died )
 * -, French astronomer (died )
 * -, Scottish poet (died )
 * date unknown
 * , Irish dramatist (died )
 * , Seigneur of Sark (died )
 * , Scottish painter (died )
 * , American revolutionary (died )


 * See also .

Deaths

 * -, Italian architect (born )
 * -, English dyer, astronomer, and scientist (born )
 * -, Italian composer (born )
 * -, British architect (born c.)
 * -, French-born Austrian general (born )
 * -, German scholar and bibliographer (born )
 * -, German physicist and inventor (born )
 * -, Portuguese ruler of Malta (born )
 * -, Italian composer (born )
 * , (born )
 * , Scottish captain (born c.)


 * See also .