1736 in France
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Events from the year 1736 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- May 26 â Battle of Ackia: British and Chickasaw Native Americans defeat French troops.
- June 19 â 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
- February 19 â Simon Charles Miger, engraver (d. 1828)
- March 21 â Claude Nicolas Ledoux, neoclassical architect (d. 1806)
- June 14 â Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, physicist (d. 1806)
- June 22 â Auguste-Louis de Rossel de Cercy, painter primarily of naval scenes (d. 1804)
- August 26 â Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, geologist (d. 1790)
- September 15 â Jean Sylvain Bailly, astronomer (d. 1793)
- November 30 â Jean-Jacques de Boissieu, painter and etcher (d. 1810)
- Honoré Blanc, gunsmith (d. 1801)
Deaths
- April 2 â Ãtienne Allegrain, topographical painter (b. 1644)
- April 24 â Prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (b. 1663)
- July 25 â Jean-Baptiste Pater, rococo painter (b. 1695)
- September 26 â Louise Diane d'Orléans, youngest child of Philippe II, Duke of Orleans (b. 1716)
- November 2 â Louis Antoine de Pardaillan de Gondrin, duke (b. 1664)
