Events
January–March
* January 12
Events Pre-1600
* 475 – List of Byzantine emperors, Byzantine Emperor Zeno (emperor), Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople, and his general, Basiliscus gains control of the empire.
*1528 – Gustav I of Sweden is crow ...
– George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, becomes the Second Field Marshal
Field marshal (or field-marshal, abbreviated as FM) is the most senior military rank, senior to the general officer ranks. Usually, it is the highest rank in an army (in countries without the rank of Generalissimo), and as such, few persons a ...
of Great Britain.
* January 23
Events Pre-1600
* 393 – Roman emperor Theodosius I proclaims his eight-year-old son Honorius co-emperor.
* 971 – Using crossbows, Song dynasty troops soundly defeat a war elephant corps of the Southern Han at Shao.
* 1229 ...
– The Civil Code of 1734 The Civil Code of 1734 ( Swedish: ''1734 års lag''), was a code of law passed by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates in 1734, and put in effect after it had been ratified by Frederick I of Sweden 23 January 1736. It became the foundation of the lat ...
is passed in Sweden
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.
* January 26
Events Pre-1600
* 661 – The Rashidun Caliphate is effectively ended with the assassination of Ali, the last caliph.
* 1531 – The 6.4–7.1 Lisbon earthquake kills about thirty thousand people.
* 1564 – The Council of T ...
– Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne.
* February 12
Events Pre-1600
* 1096 – Pope Urban II confirms the foundation of the abbey of La Roë under Robert of Arbrissel as a community of canons regular.
* 1404 – The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sofia performed the first post- ...
– Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor
Francis I (Francis Stephen; ; ; ; 8 December 1708 – 18 August 1765) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1745 to 1765, List of rulers of Austria#Dukes and archdukes of Austria under the House of Habsburg, Archduke of Austria from 1740 to 1765, List of ...
marries Maria Theresa of Austria
Maria Theresa (Maria Theresia Walburga Amalia Christina; 13 May 1717 – 29 November 1780) was the ruler of the Habsburg monarchy from 1740 until her death in 1780, and the only woman to hold the position in her own right. She was the sovereig ...
, ruler of the Habsburg Empire at the Augustinian Church in Vienna
Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city, and one of Federal states of Austria, nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. ...
.
* March 8
Events Pre-1600
* 1010 – Ferdowsi completes his epic poem '' Shahnameh''.
* 1126 – Following the death of his mother, queen Urraca of León, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of León.
* 1262 – Battle of Hausbergen between ...
– Nader Shah, founder of the Afsharid dynasty
The Afsharid dynasty () was an Iran, Iranian dynasty founded by Nader Shah () of the Qirqlu clan of the Turkoman (ethnonym), Turkoman Afshar people, Afshar tribe, ruling over the Afsharid Empire.
List of Afsharid monarchs
Family tree
...
, is crowned Shah of Iran
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on a date selected by court astrologers.
* March 31
Events Pre-1600
* 307 – After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, daughter of the retired Roman emperor Maximian.
* 1146 – Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vézelay, urging ...
– Bellevue Hospital is founded in New York.
April–June
* April 14
Events Pre-1600
* 43 BC – Legions loyal to the Roman Senate, commanded by Gaius Pansa, defeat the forces of Mark Antony in the Battle of Forum Gallorum.
* 69 – Vitellius, commanding Rhine-based armies, defeats Roman emperor ...
** The Porteous Riots
The Porteous Riots surrounded the activities of John Porteous (soldier), John Porteous, Captain of the City guard, City Guard of Edinburgh, Scotland, who was lynched by a mob for his part in the killing of innocent civilians while ordering th ...
erupt in Edinburgh
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(Scotland), after the execution of smuggler Andrew Wilson, when town guard
A city guard, city watch, town guard, or town watch were local militia companies formed to enforce municipal laws. Usually subordinate to the local municipal government, many cities had their own guard formations which doubled as police and mili ...
Captain John Porteous orders his men to fire at the crowd. Porteous is arrested later.
** German adventurer Theodor Stephan Freiherr von Neuhoff is crowned King Theodore of Corsica
Theodore I of Corsica (25 August 169411 December 1756), born Freiherr Theodor Stephan von Neuhoff, was a low-ranking German title of nobility, usually translated "Baron". was a German adventurer who was briefly Kingdom of Corsica, King of Corsica. ...
, 25 days after his arrival on Corsica on March 20. His reign ends on November 5 when he flees the island.
* April 19
Events Pre-1600
*AD 65 – The freedman Milichus betrays Pisonian conspiracy, Piso's plot to kill the Roman emperor, Emperor Nero and all of the List of conspiracies (political), conspirators are arrested.
* 531 – Battle of Callini ...
– A fire in Stony Stratford
Stony Stratford is a market town in Buckinghamshire and a constituent town of Milton Keynes, England. It is located on Watling Street, historically the Roman road from London to Chester. It is also a civil parish with a town council in the Cit ...
, England, consumes 53 houses.
* April
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April is commonly associated with the season of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, and autumn in the Southern Hemisphere, where it is the ...
– The Genbun era begins in Japan. The era of Kyōhō Reforms ends.
* May 8
Events Pre-1600
* 453 BC – Spring and Autumn period: The house of Zhao defeats the house of Zhi, ending the Battle of Jinyang, a military conflict between the elite families of the State of Jin.
* 413 – Emperor Honorius signs a ...
– Frederick, Prince of Wales
Frederick, Prince of Wales (Frederick Louis, German: ''Friedrich Ludwig''; 31 January 1707 – 31 March 1751) was the eldest son and heir apparent of King George II of Great Britain. He grew estranged from his parents, King George and Queen C ...
, marries Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha
Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg ( – 8 February 1772) was Princess of Wales by marriage to Frederick, Prince of Wales, eldest son and heir apparent of King George II of Great Britain, George II. She never became queen consort, as Freder ...
.
* May 22
Events Pre-1600
* 192 – Dong Zhuo is assassinated by his adopted son Lü Bu.
* 760 – Fourteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
* 853 – A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt.
...
– King George II of Great Britain
George II (George Augustus; ; 30 October / 9 November 1683 – 25 October 1760) was King of Great Britain and King of Ireland, Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Electorate of Hanover, Hanover) and a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Em ...
departs for Europe as part of his duties as Elector of Hanover; his wife, Caroline, Queen Consort rules on his behalf as the Regent for the last time until his return on January 14, 1736.
* May 26
Events Pre-1600
* 17 – Germanicus celebrates a triumph in Rome for his victories over the Cherusci, Chatti, and other German tribes west of the Elbe.
* 451 – Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sasanian Empire ta ...
– Battle of Ackia: British and Chickasaw
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Native Americans defeat French troops.
* June 8 – Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler ( ; ; ; 15 April 170718 September 1783) was a Swiss polymath who was active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician, geographer, and engineer. He founded the studies of graph theory and topology and made influential ...
writes to James Stirling describing the Euler–Maclaurin formula, providing a disconnection between integral
In mathematics, an integral is the continuous analog of a Summation, sum, which is used to calculate area, areas, volume, volumes, and their generalizations. Integration, the process of computing an integral, is one of the two fundamental oper ...
s and sums.
* June 19 – A French Academy of Sciences
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expedition, led by Pierre Louis Maupertuis, with Anders Celsius
Anders Celsius (; 27 November 170125 April 1744) was a Swedes, Swedish astronomer, physicist and mathematician. He was professor of astronomy at Uppsala University from 1730 to 1744, but traveled from 1732 to 1735 visiting notable observatories ...
, begins work on measuring a meridian arc
In geodesy and navigation, a meridian arc is the curve (geometry), curve between two points near the Earth's surface having the same longitude. The term may refer either to a arc (geometry), segment of the meridian (geography), meridian, or to its ...
in Meänmaa, Finland.
* June 24 – Witchcraft Act 1735 ( 9 Geo. 2. c. 5) in Great Britain comes into effect, criminalizing claimants accusing people of practising witchcraft or of possessing magical powers, intended to end legal witch trials in the early modern period
In the early modern period, from about 1400 to 1775, about 100,000 people were prosecuted for witchcraft in Europe and British America. Between 40,000 and 60,000 were executed, almost all in Europe. The witch-hunts were particularly severe in pa ...
in the country.
July–September
* July 1
Events Pre-1600
* 69 – Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.
* 552 – Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy, and ...
– Russo-Turkish War (1735–39): Russian forces under Peter Lacy storm the Ottoman fortress of Azov
Azov (, ), previously known as Azak ( Turki/ Kypchak: ),
is a town in Rostov Oblast, Russia, situated on the Don River just from the Sea of Azov, which derives its name from the town. The population is
History
Early settlements in the vici ...
.
* August 12 – A fire in Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the List of cities and towns in Russia by population, second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the Neva, River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland ...
, capital of the Russian Empire, destroys 2,000 buildings, the city's post office, and several palaces.
* September 7
Events Pre-1600
* 878 – Louis the Stammerer is crowned as king of West Francia by Pope John VIII.
* 1159 – Cardinal Rolando Bandinelli is elected Pope Alexander III, prompting the election of Cardinal Octaviano Monticelli as Anti ...
– An Edinburgh crowd drags John Porteous out of his cell in Tolbooth Prison, and lynches him.
* September 29 – The Gin Act 1736 goes into effect, placing a steep tax on the sale of gin and license requirements for its sale, with the intent of reducing consumption of the liquor in Britain. Widely ignored, the Act is repealed in 1743.
* September 30
Events Pre-1600
* 489 – The Ostrogoths under Theoderic the Great defeat the forces of Odoacer for the second time.
* 737 – The Turgesh drive back an Umayyad invasion of Khuttal, follow them south of the Oxus, and capture thei ...
– The Lebanese Council of 1736 begins, a major turning point in the reform of the Maronite Church
The Maronite Church (; ) is an Eastern Catholic '' sui iuris'' particular church in full communion with the pope and the worldwide Catholic Church, with self-governance under the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches. The head of the Maronit ...
. In the following three days, the assembled Maronite and Latin clergy presided by Yusuf ibn Siman as-Simani discuss various reforms and elaborate rules and canons.
October–December
* October 3 – French scientist Charles Marie de La Condamine and a team of surveyors begin the first measurements at the Equator
The equator is the circle of latitude that divides Earth into the Northern Hemisphere, Northern and Southern Hemisphere, Southern Hemispheres of Earth, hemispheres. It is an imaginary line located at 0 degrees latitude, about in circumferen ...
to determine the exact meridian arc
In geodesy and navigation, a meridian arc is the curve (geometry), curve between two points near the Earth's surface having the same longitude. The term may refer either to a arc (geometry), segment of the meridian (geography), meridian, or to its ...
measurement of distance between points separated by one degree of longitude
Longitude (, ) is a geographic coordinate that specifies the east- west position of a point on the surface of the Earth, or another celestial body. It is an angular measurement, usually expressed in degrees and denoted by the Greek lett ...
in order to make a precise calculation of the Earth's circumference. The initial measurements of this French Geodesic Mission to the Equator, made in what is now Ecuador
Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Province which contain ...
, last until November 3. The same year the French Geodesic Mission to Lapland took place. Both confirm Isaac Newton's prediction that the Figure of the Earth
In geodesy, the figure of the Earth is the size and shape used to model planet Earth. The kind of figure depends on application, including the precision needed for the model. A spherical Earth is a well-known historical approximation that is ...
is flattened at the poles.
* November 5
Events Pre-1600
*1138 – Lý Anh Tông is enthroned as emperor of Vietnam at the age of two, beginning a 37-year reign.
* 1499 – The '' Catholicon'', written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc in Tréguier, is published; this is the first B ...
– King Theodore of Corsica
Theodore I of Corsica (25 August 169411 December 1756), born Freiherr Theodor Stephan von Neuhoff, was a low-ranking German title of nobility, usually translated "Baron". was a German adventurer who was briefly Kingdom of Corsica, King of Corsica. ...
flees the island after a reign of seven months and the kingdom reverts to Genoese control. [
* ]November 13
Events
Pre-1600
* 1002 – English king Æthelred II orders the killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St. Brice's Day massacre.
* 1093 – Battle of Alnwick: in an English victory over the Scots, Malcolm III of Scot ...
– Word of the discovery of silver, south of what is now the U.S.-Mexican border, reaches Sonora Governor Juan Bautista Anza and soon leads to prospectors coming to Nogales to find more silver. Late in October, a Yaqui Indian prospector, Antonio Siraumea, had discovered large slabs of silver ("Las planchas de plata"), and at the Estancia Arizona, a ranch owned by Captain . The region, and later the U.S. territory, and state of Arizona
Arizona is a U.S. state, state in the Southwestern United States, Southwestern region of the United States, sharing the Four Corners region of the western United States with Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah. It also borders Nevada to the nort ...
are named for Urrea's ranch.
* December 7
Events Pre-1600
*43 BC – Marcus Tullius Cicero is assassinated in Formia on orders of Marcus Antonius.
* 574 – Byzantine Emperor Justin II, suffering recurring seizures of insanity, adopts his general Tiberius and proclaims him ...
– Benjamin Franklin
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builds the first volunteer fire company in Philadelphia
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.
* December 26 – Andrew Michael Ramsay gives an oration, in which he relates the heritage and internationalism of Freemasonry
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to that of the Crusades
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.
Date unknown
* Neustrelitz
Neustrelitz (; ) is a town in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is situated on the shore of the Zierker See in the Mecklenburg Lake District. From 1738 until 1918 it was the capital o ...
becomes the capital of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
* Bushehr
Bushehr (; ) is a port city in the Central District (Bushehr County), Central District of Bushehr County, Bushehr province, Bushehr province, Iran, serving as capital of the province, the county, and the district.
Etymology
The roots of the n ...
is founded in Persia
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.
* The Belgrade Fortress
The Belgrade Fortress ( sr-Cyrl, Београдска тврђава, Beogradska tvrđava, Hungarian: Nándorfehérvár), consists of the old citadel (Upper and Lower Town) and Kalemegdan Park (Large and Little Kalemegdan) on the confluence of th ...
is completed.
* One of the earliest records of use of a bathing machine is made at Scarborough Scarborough or Scarboro may refer to:
People
* Scarborough (surname)
* Earl of Scarbrough
Places Australia
* Scarborough, Western Australia, suburb of Perth
* Scarborough, New South Wales, suburb of Wollongong
* Scarborough, Queensland, sub ...
, England.
* Charles Marie de La Condamine, with François Fresneau Gataudière, makes the first scientific observations of rubber
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Types of polyisoprene ...
, in Ecuador
Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Province which contain ...
.
* Leonhard Euler
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produces the first ''published'' proof of Fermat's "little theorem".
* Sir Isaac Newton
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's '' Method of Fluxions'' (1671), describing his method of differential calculus
In mathematics, differential calculus is a subfield of calculus that studies the rates at which quantities change. It is one of the two traditional divisions of calculus, the other being integral calculus—the study of the area beneath a curve. ...
, is first published (posthumously) and Thomas Bayes
Thomas Bayes ( , ; 7 April 1761) was an English statistician, philosopher and Presbyterian minister who is known for formulating a specific case of the theorem that bears his name: Bayes' theorem.
Bayes never published what would become his m ...
publishes a defense of its logical foundations (anonymously).
* Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab
Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Sulaymān al-Tamīmī (1703–1792) was a Sunni Muslim scholar, theologian, preacher, activist, religious leader, jurist, and reformer, who was from Najd in Arabian Peninsula and is considered as the eponymo ...
writes the ''Kitab at-tawhidt'', marking the beginning of Wahhabism
Wahhabism is an exonym for a Salafi revivalist movement within Sunni Islam named after the 18th-century Hanbali scholar Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab. It was initially established in the central Arabian region of Najd and later spread to oth ...
.
* The Haidamakas raid the shtetl of Pavoloch, killing 35.
Births

*
January 7
Events Pre-1600
*49 BC – The Senate of the Roman Republic, Senate of Rome says that Caesar will be declared a public enemy unless he disbands his army, prompting the tribunes who support him to flee to where Caesar is waiting in Ravenna ...
– Andrew Adams (congressman), Andrew Adams, American judge (d. 1797)

* January 19 – James Watt, Scottish inventor (d. 1819)
* January 25 – Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Italian-born mathematician (d. 1813)
* February 3 – Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Austrian musician (d. 1809)
* February 29 – Ann Lee, English-born American religious leader (d. 1784)
*March, March 20 – Rama I, First King of Siam (d. 1809)
*
May 8
Events Pre-1600
* 453 BC – Spring and Autumn period: The house of Zhao defeats the house of Zhi, ending the Battle of Jinyang, a military conflict between the elite families of the State of Jin.
* 413 – Emperor Honorius signs a ...
– Caterina Dolfin, Italian (Venetian) poet (d. 1793)
* May 10 – George Steevens, English literary critic (d. 1800)
* May 29 – Patrick Henry, American patriot (d. 1799)
* June 3 – Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet, Prime Minister of Naples (d. 1811)
* June 7 – Fermín Lasuén, Spanish missionary (d. 1803)

* June 14 – Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (d. 1806)
* June 21 – Enoch Poor, American general (d. 1780)
* June 25 – John Horne Tooke, English politician, philologist (d. 1812)
* July – Juan Bautista de Anza, Governor of the Spanish Province of New Mexico (d. 1788)
* August 9 – Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé (d. 1818)
* August 15 – Alexander Runciman, Scottish painter (d. 1785)
* August 26 – Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, French geologist (d. 1790)
* September 15 – Jean Sylvain Bailly, French astronomer (d. 1793)
* September 16 – Carter Braxton, signer of the American Declaration of Independence (d. 1797)
* October 27 – James Macpherson, Scottish poet (d. 1796)
* ''date unknown''
** Robert Jephson, Irish dramatist (d. 1803)
** Li Ching-Yuen, Chinese herbalist, martial artist and tactical advisor (d.1933) (claimed)
** Pierre le Pelley I, Seigneur of Sark (d. 1778)
** Claudius Smith, American revolutionary (d. 1779)
** Sir James Tylney-Long, 7th Baronet, English politician (d. 1794)
Deaths
* January 8 – Jean Leclerc (theologian), Swiss theologian and biblical scholar (b. 1657)
* January 17 – Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, German architect (b. 1662)
* January 31 – Filippo Juvarra, Italian architect (b. 1678)
* February 1 – James Stanley, 10th Earl of Derby, English politician (b. 1664)
* February 7 – Stephen Gray (scientist), Stephen Gray, English dyer, astronomer, and scientist (b. 1666)
* March 16 – Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer (b. 1710)
* March 25 – Nicholas Hawksmoor, British architect (b. c. 1661)

* April 21 – Prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (b. 1663)
* April 30 – Johann Albert Fabricius, German scholar and bibliographer (b. 1668)
* May 9 – Diogo de Mendonça Corte-Real, Portuguese politician (b. 1658)
* June 6 – Jean Baptiste de La Vérendrye, explorer of New France, eldest son of Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye (b. 1713)
*
July 1
Events Pre-1600
* 69 – Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.
* 552 – Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy, and ...
– Ahmed III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1673)
* July 7 – William Hardres, British politician (b. 1686)
* August 14 – Victor Honoré Janssens, Flemish painter (b. 1658)

* September 6 –
John Porteous, Scottish captain (b. c. 1695)
* September 16 – Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist and inventor (b. 1686)
* September 26 – Louise Diane d'Orléans, youngest child of Philippe II, Duke of Orleans (b. 1716)
* October 22 – George Clarke, English politician, architect (b. 1661)
* November 2 – Louis Antoine de Pardaillan de Gondrin, French duke (b. 1664)
* December 10 – António Manoel de Vilhena, Portuguese 66th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (b. 1663)
* December 12 (burial) – Antonina Houbraken, Dutch draughtswoman (b. 1686)
* December 22 – Sir William Robinson, 1st Baronet, British politician (b. 1655)
*
December 26 – Antonio Caldara, Italian composer (b. 1670)
* ''date unknown''
** Anna Colbjørnsdatter, Norwegian heroine (b. 1667)
** Chen Shu (painter), Chen Shu, Chinese painter (b. 1660)
References
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1736,
Leap years in the Gregorian calendar