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1736
Events from the year 1736 in France.
Incumbents
Monarch: Louis XVBBC - History - King Louis XV https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/louis_xv.shtml www.bbc.co.uk 17 June 2022
Events
May 26 – Battle of Ackia: British and Chickasaw Native Americans defeat French troops.
June 19 – French Academy of Sciences expedition led by Pierre Louis Maupertuis, with Anders Celsius, begins work on measuring a meridian arc in Torne Valley of Finland.http://lapinkavijat.rovaniemi.fi/maupertuis/index_eng.html Degree measurements by de Maupertuis in the Tornionlaakso Valley 1736-1737 Piippola Takalo 2012-05-06
Births
February 19 – Simon Charles Miger, engraver (d. 1828)
March 21 – Claude Nicolas Ledoux, neoclassical architect (d. 1806)
June 14 – Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, physicist (d. 1806)
June 22 – Auguste-Louis de Rossel de Cercy, painter primarily of naval scenes (d. 1804)
August 26 – Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, geologist (d. 1790)
September 15 – Jean Sylvain Bailly, astronomer (d. 1793)
November 30 – Jean-Jacques de Boissieu, painter and etcher (d. 1810)
Honoré Blanc, gunsmith (d. 1801)
Deaths
April 2 – Étienne Allegrain, topographical painter (b. 1644)
April 24 – Prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (b. 1663)
July 25 – Jean-Baptiste Pater, rococo painter (b. 1695)
September 26 – Louise Diane d'Orléans, youngest child of Philippe II, Duke of Orleans (b. 1716)
November 2 – Louis Antoine de Pardaillan de Gondrin, duke (b. 1664)
See also
France History Lists
References
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