1736

Born in 1736:

• French mathematician Joseph-Louis Lagrange, in Turin.
• Virginia politican and orator Patrick Henry.
• Scottish engineer and inventor James Watt.
• German composer Johann Georg Albrechtsberger.
• (March 23) American Revolutionary War general Arthur St. Clair, in Thurso, Scotland¹.
• French physicist Charles Coulomb.
• Shaker founder Ann Lee, in Manchester.
• French architect Pierre Vignon.
• English painter Nathaniel Dance.
• German painter Anton Graff.
• British radical John Horne Tooke.

Died in 1736:

• French architect Francois Antoine Vasse.
• Italian composer Antonio Caldara.
• Italian composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi.
• German physicist Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit.
• English architect Nicholas Hawksmoor.
• Prince Eugène of Savoy, co-victor at the 1704 Battle of Blenheim and onetime commander of the Austrian army.
• Ottomman sultan Ahmed III.
• Abbas III, shah of Persia, seven years old.

Events of 1736:

• Leonhard Euler:
• proves Fermat's little theorem
• solves the Seven bridges of Königsberg problem
• publishes a treatise on Newtonian dynamics.
• Pope Clement XII condemns freemasonry.
• Moreau de Maupertuis begins an expedition to Lapland to prove that the Earth is flattened at the poles.
• The British Parliament
• repeals witchcraft laws.
• bans the distillation of gin.
• Nadir Khouli, regent of Persia, has himself declared shah as well.

1735 - 1736 - 1737

How They Were Made - 18th Century

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¹Various sites give the year of St. Clair's birth as 1734, 1736, 1737, 1738, and 1740.