1736 in Great Britain

1736 in Great Britain

Events from the year 1736 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Incumbents

*Monarch - George II of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister - Robert Walpole, Whig

Events

* 14 April - Porteous Riots in Edinburgh. Captain John Porteous orders his men to fire into the mob causing six deaths/
* 8 May - Marriage of Frederick, Prince of Wales and Augusta of Saxe-Gotha.
* 18 May - Repeal of laws against witchcraft.
* 26 May - Battle of Ackia: British and Chickasaw Native Americans defeat French troops.
* 5 July - Captain Porteous found guilty of murder by the High Court of Justiciary.
* 27 July - Riots in east London protesting at Irish immigrants providing cheap labour.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 215-216|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
* 7 September - Edinburgh crowd drags Captain Porteous out of his cell in Tolbooth prison and lynches him. The mob beats and hangs him to death.

Undated

* Isaac Newton's book "Method of Fluxions" published.
* George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney becomes the first Field Marshal of Great Britain.
* 53 houses in the English town of Stony Stratford are consumed by fire.

Births

* 19 January - James Watt, inventor (died 1819)
* 10 May - George Steevens, literary critic (died 1800)
* 25 June - John Horne Tooke, politician and philologist (died 1812)
* 27 October - James Macpherson, poet (died 1796)
* "date unknown" - Alexander Runciman, painter (died 1785)

Deaths

* 7 February - Stephen Gray, dyer, astronomer, and scientist (born 1666)
* 25 March - Nicholas Hawksmoor, architect (born c.1661)
* 7 September - Captain John Porteous, captain (born c.1695)

References

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