History
1736
General
Population: 737 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Joseph Butler (religion), William Warburton talks about the alliance between Church and State
Art includes Hogarth "The Good Samaritan"
Music includes Handel, Pergolesi,
- Exploration: French expedition to Lapland under Anders Celsius
- Medicine: Claudius Aymand performs first successful appendectomy
- Religion: Pope Clement XII comdemns Freemasonry
- Science: Leonhard Euler begons study of analytical mechanics - publishes textbook
- Technology: John Harrison presents chronometer to Board of Longitude
- Deaths: Architect Mattheus Daniel Poppelmann, Prince Eugene of Savoy, Physicist Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, Composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (age 26),
Mr Thomas Reynolds hanged for robbery but doesn't die - hangman's assistant discovers this when nailing the coffin –
taken to nearby house where he vomits blood and dies
Americas
- Brazil: Academic schools of Sao Paolo and Sao Jose founded by Portuguese Jesuits
- Peru: Natural rubber discovered
Asia
- China: Rule of Qianlong (Chi-en Ling) the Qing emperor – frequent rebellions follow until death in 1795
- India: Start of campaign of Nadir Shah of Persia against Ottomans
Europe
- Great Britain: Porteous riots in Edinburgh
English statutes against witchcraft repealed
Hard rubber caoutchoue "India Rubber" comes to England
- Holy Roman Empire: Maria Theresa marries Francis Duke of Lorraine
Campaign against Ottoman Turks to 1739
- Italian States: Death of Prince Eugene of Savoy
German adventurer Theodor von Neuhof elected King of Corsica
Manufacture of glass begins in Venice at Murano
- Poland: Stanislas I abdicates
- Russia: War with Turkey
Middle East
- Ottoman Empire: War between Turkey and Russia/Austria alliance
Start of campaigns of Nadir Shah in central Asia
- Persia: Nadir Shah reigns as Shah 11 years overthrowing Safavid dynasty