1736 Facts for Kids

The year 1736 was a time of important events around the world, from changes in royal families to new scientific discoveries and battles.

Major Events of 1736

January 26 – Stanislaus I, who was the King of Poland, decided to give up his throne. This means he stopped being king.
February 12 – Francis I, who would later become the Holy Roman Emperor, married Maria Theresa. She would become a very powerful ruler and was the mother of Marie Antoinette.
May 8 – Frederick, Prince of Wales, who was the son of the King of Great Britain, married Augusta of Saxe-Gotha.

May 26 – In a battle known as the Battle of Ackia, soldiers from Britain and their allies, the Chickasaw Native Americans, fought against French troops. The British and Chickasaw forces won this battle.

April 14 – The Porteous Riots began in Edinburgh, Scotland. This happened after a smuggler named Andrew Wilson was put to death. John Porteous, who was the captain of the town guard, told his soldiers to shoot into the crowd of people. Porteous was arrested later because of this.
September 7 – A large crowd in Edinburgh took John Porteous from his prison cell in Tolbooth prison, and he was killed.

A group of French scientists, led by Pierre Louis Maupertuis, was sent by King Louis XV to a place called Lapland. Their mission was to measure how long a degree of the meridian was. A meridian is an imaginary line that goes around the Earth from the North Pole to the South Pole. Their measurements helped prove that the Earth is a bit flat at the North and South Poles, not a perfect sphere.
The town of Real Arissona was founded. This town is the reason the U.S. state of Arizona got its name.

Isaac Newton, a very famous scientist, published his book called Method of Fluxions. This book was about a type of math called calculus, which deals with how things change.
Another mathematician named Thomas Bayes wrote a paper that supported Isaac Newton's ideas about calculus.
Leonhard Euler, a brilliant mathematician, solved a famous puzzle known as the seven bridges of Königsberg. This problem was about finding a path that crosses each of seven bridges exactly once.