1736 in Great Britain

1736 in Great Britain:

Other years

1734 | 1735 | 1736 | 1737 | 1738

Sport

1736 English cricket season

Events from the year 1736 in Great Britain.

Incumbents

• Monarch – George II
• Regent – Caroline, Queen Consort (starting 24 May)[1]
• Prime Minister – Robert Walpole (Whig)
• Parliament – 8th

Events

• 12 January – George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney becomes the first Field Marshal of Great Britain.
• 14 April – Porteous Riots in Edinburgh. Captain John Porteous orders his men to fire into the mob, causing six deaths.
• 19 April – 53 houses in the Northamptonshire town of Stony Stratford are consumed by fire.[2]
• 8 May – marriage of Frederick, Prince of Wales and Augusta of Saxe-Gotha.
• 18 May – repeal of laws against witchcraft.[3]
• 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.[3]
• September – Gin Act 1736 comes into effect in an attempt to curtail consumption of gin.
• 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.
• c. October – Winchester County Hospital, established by Prebendary Alured Clarke, the first voluntary general hospital in the English provinces, begins to function in Hampshire.

Publications

• Sir Matthew Hale's legal treatise Historia Placitorum Coronæ; or The History of the Pleas of the Crown (posthumous).[4]
• Isaac Newton's book Method of Fluxions.

Births

• 19 January – James Watt, Scottish-born inventor (died 1819)
• 29 February – Ann Lee, founder of the Shakers (died 1784)
• 10 May – George Steevens, literary critic (died 1800)
• 25 June – John Horne Tooke, politician and philologist (died 1812)
• 15 August – Alexander Runciman, Scottish painter (died 1785)
• 27 October – James Macpherson, Scottish poet (died 1796)
• James Tylney-Long, politician (died 1794)

Deaths

• 1 February – James Stanley, 10th Earl of Derby, politician (born 1664)
• 7 February – Stephen Gray, dyer, astronomer and scientist (born 1666)
• 18 March – Jacob Tonson, bookseller and publisher (born c. 1655)
• 25 March – Nicholas Hawksmoor, architect (born c. 1661)
• 7 July – William Hardres, politician (born 1686)
• 7 September – Captain John Porteous, soldier (born c. 1695)
• 22 October – George Clarke, politician and architect (born 1661)
• 22 December – Sir William Robinson, 1st Baronet, politician (born 1655)
• undated – Bay Bolton, racehorse (born 1705)

References

1. Pryde, E. B., ed. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology. Cambridge University Press. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-521-56350-5.
2. The British Chronologist. 1789.
3. Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 215–216. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
4. Hostettler, John (2002). The Red Gown: the Life and Works of Sir Matthew Hale. Chichester: Barry Rose Law Publishers. p. 151. ISBN 1-902681-28-2.

See also