1736

1736 (MDCCXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday in the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday in the Julian calendar.

 Events 
 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