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.
- 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.
Read more about this topic: 1736 In Great Britain
Famous quotes containing the word events:
“Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)
“A curious thing about atrocity stories is that they mirror, instead of the events they purport to describe, the extent of the hatred of the people that tell them.
Still, you can’t listen unmoved to tales of misery and murder.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.”
—Salman Rushdie (b. 1948)