1736
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- 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
- Anna I Empress of Russia, attacks Turkey
- Neustrelitz becomes the capital of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- 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
- Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab writes the Kitab at-tawhidt, marking the beginning of Wahhabism
