1736 in France
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Events from the year 1736 in France.
Incumbents
[edit]Events
[edit]- 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 Meänmaa of Finland.[2]
Births
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
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References
[edit]- ^ "BBC - History - King Louis XV". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
- ^ Piippola, Takalo. "Degree measurements by de Maupertuis in the Tornionlaakso Valley 1736-1737". Retrieved 2012-05-06.