Editing 1736 (section)

== Events ==
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=== January–March ===
* [[January 12]] &ndash; [[George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney]], becomes the Second [[Field Marshal]] of Great Britain.
* [[January 23]] &ndash; The [[Civil Code of 1734]] is passed in [[Sweden]].
* [[January 26]] &ndash; [[Stanislaus I of Poland]] abdicates his throne.
* [[February 12]] &ndash; [[Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor]] marries [[Maria Theresa of Austria]], ruler of the Habsburg Empire at the [[Augustinian Church, Vienna|Augustinian Church]] in [[Vienna]].
* [[March 8]] &ndash; [[Nader Shah]], founder of the [[Afsharid dynasty]], is crowned [[Shah of Iran]] on a date selected by court astrologers.<ref>{{cite book |first=Elton L. |last=Daniel |author-link=Elton L. Daniel |title=The History of Iran |publisher=[[Greenwood Press]] |year=2001 |page=95}}</ref>
* [[March 31]] &ndash; [[NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue|Bellevue Hospital]] is founded in New York.

=== April–June ===
* [[April 14]]
** The [[Porteous Riots]] erupt in [[Edinburgh]] (Scotland), after the execution of smuggler Andrew Wilson, when [[town guard]] Captain [[John Porteous (soldier)|John Porteous]] orders his men to fire at the crowd. Porteous is arrested later.
** German adventurer Theodor Stephan Freiherr von Neuhoff is crowned King [[Theodore of Corsica]], 25 days after his arrival on Corsica on March 20.<ref name=Corsica>{{cite book|first=L. H.|last=Caird|title=The History of Corsica|location=London|publisher=T. Fisher Unwin|year=1899|pages=93–97}}</ref> His reign ends on November 5 when he flees the island.
* [[April 19]] &ndash; A fire in [[Stony Stratford]], England, consumes 53 houses.<ref>{{cite book|title=The British Chronologist|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=68lOAAAAcAAJ&q=%22Stony+Stratford%22+fire+1736&pg=PT80|year=1789}}</ref>
* [[April]] &ndash; The [[Genbun]] era begins in Japan. The era of [[Kyōhō Reforms]] ends.
* [[May 8]] &ndash; [[Frederick, Prince of Wales]], marries [[Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha]].
* [[May 22]] &ndash; King [[George II of Great Britain]] departs for Europe as part of his duties as [[Elector of Hanover]]; his wife, [[Caroline of Ansbach|Caroline, Queen Consort]] rules on his behalf as the Regent for the last time until his return on January 14, 1736.<ref>{{cite book|chapter=George II|title=An Index of Dates, Comprehending the Principal Facts in the Chronology and History of the World, from the Earliest to the Present Time|first=J. Willoughby|last=Rosse|location=London|publisher=Henry G. Bohn|year=1858|page=347}}</ref> 
* [[May 26]] &ndash; [[Battle of Ackia]]: British and [[Chickasaw]] Native Americans defeat French troops.
* [[June 8]] &ndash; [[Leonhard Euler]] writes to James Stirling describing the [[Euler–Maclaurin formula]], providing a disconnection between [[integral]]s and [[sums]].
* [[June 19]] &ndash; A [[French Academy of Sciences]] expedition, led by [[Pierre Louis Maupertuis]], with [[Anders Celsius]], begins work on measuring a [[meridian arc]] in [[Meänmaa]], Finland.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lapinkavijat.rovaniemi.fi/maupertuis/index_eng.html|title=Degree measurements by de Maupertuis in the Tornionlaakso Valley 1736-1737|last=Piippola|first=Takalo|date=July 30, 2002|access-date=2012-05-06}}</ref>
* [[June 24]] &ndash; [[Witchcraft Act 1735]] ([[9 Geo. 2]]. c. 5) in Great Britain comes into effect, criminalizing claimants accusing people of practising witchcraft or of possessing magical powers, intended to end legal [[witch trials in the early modern period]] in the country.<ref name=CBH>{{cite book|last1=Palmer|first1=Alan|last2=Palmer|first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=215–216|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref>

=== July–September ===
* [[July 1]] &ndash; [[Russo-Turkish War (1735–39)]]: Russian forces under [[Peter Lacy]] storm the Ottoman fortress of [[Azov]]. <ref>Chris Cook and Philip Broadhead, ''The Routledge Companion to Early Modern Europe, 1453-1763'' (Taylor & Francis, 2012) p.126 </ref>
* [[August 12]] &ndash; A fire in [[Saint Petersburg]], capital of the Russian Empire, destroys 2,000 buildings, the city's post office, and several palaces.<ref>"Fires, Great", in ''The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance'', Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p50</ref>
* [[September 7]] &ndash; An Edinburgh crowd drags [[John Porteous (soldier)|John Porteous]] out of his cell in Tolbooth Prison, and [[lynching|lynches]] him.
* [[September 29]] &ndash; The [[Gin Act 1736]] goes into effect, placing a steep tax on the sale of gin and license requirements for its sale, with the intent of reducing consumption of the liquor in Britain.  Widely ignored, the Act is repealed in 1743. <ref>W. H. Wilkins, ''Caroline, the Illustrious Queen-Consort of George II. and Sometime Queen-Regent: A Study of Her Life and Time'', Volume 2  (Longmans, Green, 1901) p20</ref>
* [[September 30]] &ndash; The [[Lebanese Council of 1736]] begins, a major turning point in the reform of the [[Maronite Church]]. In the following three days, the assembled Maronite and Latin clergy presided by [[Yusuf ibn Siman as-Simani]] discuss various reforms and elaborate rules and canons.<ref>{{cite book |last1=O’Mahony |first1=Anthony |editor1-last=Angold |editor1-first=Michael |title=The Cambridge History of Christianity - Volume 5: Eastern Christianity |date=2008 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-81113-2|pages=519–520 |language=en |chapter=Syriac Christianity in the modern Middle East}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Moosa |first1=Matti |title=The Maronites in History |date=2005 |publisher=Gorgias Press |location=New York |isbn=1-59333-182-7|pages=270–272 |language=en}}</ref>

=== October–December ===
* [[October 3]] &ndash; French scientist [[Charles Marie de La Condamine]] and a team of surveyors begin the first measurements at the [[Equator]] to determine the exact [[meridian arc]] measurement of distance between points separated by one [[degree (angle)|degree]] of [[longitude]] in order to make a precise calculation of the Earth's circumference. <ref>Oscar Peschel and Gustav Leipoldt, ''Physische Erdkunde: Nach den Hinterlassenen Manuscripten Oscar Peschel's'' (''Physical Geography: According to Oscar Peschel's Surviving Manuscripts'' (Duncker & Humblot, 1879) p. 152</ref>   The initial measurements of this [[French Geodesic Mission to the Equator]], made in what is now [[Ecuador]], last until November 3. The same year the [[French Geodesic Mission to Lapland]] took place. Both confirm Isaac Newton's prediction that the [[Figure of the Earth]] is flattened at the poles.
* [[November 5]] &ndash; King [[Theodore of Corsica]] flees the island after a reign of seven months and the kingdom reverts to Genoese control. <ref name=Corsica/>
* [[November 13]] &ndash; Word of the discovery of silver, south of what is now the U.S.-Mexican border, reaches Sonora Governor Juan Bautista Anza and soon leads to prospectors coming to [[Nogales, Sonora|Nogales]] to find more silver.  <ref>Carlos R. Herrera, ''Juan Bautista de Anza: The King's Governor in New Mexico'' (University of Oklahoma Press, 2015) p37</ref>  Late in October, a Yaqui Indian prospector, Antonio Siraumea, had discovered [[Planchas de Plata, Sonora|large slabs of silver]] ("Las planchas de plata"), and at the Estancia Arizona, a ranch owned by Captain {{ill|Bernardo de Urrea|es}}.  The region, and later the U.S. territory, and state of [[Arizona]] are named for Urrea's ranch.
* [[December 7]] &ndash; [[Benjamin Franklin]] builds the [[Firefighting in the United States|first volunteer fire company]] in [[Philadelphia]].
* [[December 26]] &ndash; [[Andrew Michael Ramsay]] gives an oration, in which he relates the heritage and internationalism of [[Freemasonry]] to that of the [[Crusades]].

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Neustrelitz]] becomes the capital of [[Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz|Mecklenburg-Strelitz]].
* [[Bushehr]] is founded in [[Persia]].
* The [[Belgrade Fortress]] is completed.
* One of the earliest records of use of a [[bathing machine]] is made at [[Scarborough, North Yorkshire|Scarborough]], England.
* [[Charles Marie de La Condamine]], with François Fresneau Gataudière, makes the first scientific observations of [[rubber]], in [[Ecuador]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Journal du voyage fait par ordre du roi à l'équateur|location=Paris|year=1751}}</ref>
* [[Leonhard Euler]] produces the first ''published'' proof of [[Fermat's little theorem|Fermat's "little theorem"]].<ref>''Theorematum Quorundam ad Numeros Primos Spectantium Demonstratio''.</ref>
* Sir [[Isaac Newton]]'s ''[[Method of Fluxions]]'' (1671), describing his method of [[differential calculus]], is first published (posthumously) and [[Thomas Bayes]] publishes a defense of its logical foundations (anonymously).<ref>''An Introduction to the Doctrine of Fluxions, and a Defence of the Mathematicians Against the Objections of the Author of the Analyst''.</ref>
* [[Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab]] writes the ''Kitab at-tawhidt'', marking the beginning of [[Wahhabism]].
* The [[Haidamaka]]s raid the shtetl of [[Pavoloch]], killing 35.</onlyinclude>