1736 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1736?
- January 26, 1736 – Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne.
- March 8, 1736 – Nader Shah, founder of the Afsharid dynasty, is crowned Shah of Iran.
- May 26, 1736 – Battle of Ackia: British and Chickasaw soldiers repel a French and Choctaw attack on the Chickasaw village of Ackia, near present-day Tupelo, Mississippi. The French, under Louisiana governor Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, had sought to link Louisiana with Acadia and the other northern colonies of New France.
Who Were Born In The Year 1736?
- January 19, 1736 – James Watt, Scottish inventor (d. 1819)
- January 25, 1736 – Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Italian-born mathematician (d. 1813)
- February 6, 1736 – Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, German-Austrian sculptor (d. 1783)
- February 29, 1736 – Ann Lee, American founder of Shakers (d. 1784)
- May 29, 1736 – Patrick Henry, American patriot, 1st & 6th Governor of Virginia (d. 1799)
- June 21, 1736 – Enoch Poor, American general in the Continental Army (d. 1780)
- July 6, 1736 – Daniel Morgan, American battlefield tactician (d. 1802)
- July 10, 1736 – Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (d. 1807)
- August 26, 1736 – Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, French chemist (d. 1790)
- September 12, 1736 – Hsinbyushin, Burmese king (d. 1776)
- September 15, 1736 – Jean Sylvain Bailly, French astronomer and orator (d. 1793)
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