Bellevue Hospital in New York in the early days
In the year 1736, Bellevue Hospital is founded in New York (Mar 31), Witchcraft Act of 1735 in Great Britain comes into effect, intending to end legal witch trials there (Jun 24), attempts to calculate the precise circumference of Earth start in today’s Ecuador (Oct 13), Benjamin Franklin builds the first volunteer fire company in Philadelphia (Dec 17) - and all these fine people were born:
1736-xxxx Keʻeaumoku Pāpaʻiahiahi* Hawaiian high chief - Kingdom of Hawai’i (1804/c.67)
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1736-0123 Matts Henriksson Smeds** father of Johan Mattsson Smeds - Smeds, StorSocklot, Uusikaarlepyy, Sweden-Finland (1794/58)
1736-0130 James Watt* inventor/ engineer/ chemist - Greenock, Renfewshire, Scotland (1819/83)
1736-0201 Matti Pertunpoika Hyövälti** father of Mikko Matinpoika Rinta-Jussila/son of Perttu Matinpoika Hyövälti - Hyövälti, Kokkolankylä, Ilmajoki, Sweden-Finland (1794/58)
1736-0203 Johann Georg Albrechtsberger* organist/ composer/one of the teachers of Beethoven - Klosterneuburg, Austtria (1809/73)
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1736-0320 Rama I* first king of Siam - Ayutthaya, Kingdom of Ayutthaya (1809/73)
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1736-0508 Caterina Dolfin* Italian poet - Venice, Republic of Venice (1793/57)
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1736-0529 Patrick Henry* attorney/ politician/orator - Studley, Virginia, British America (1799/63)
1736-0603 John Acton* English nobleman/Prime Minister of Kingdom of Naples - Besançon, Kingdom of France (1811/75)
1736-0607 Fermín de Lasuén* Basque Franciscan missionary/founder of Spanish missions in California - Vitoria, Spanish Empire (1803/67)
1736-0614 Charles-Augustin de Coulomb* physicist/ military engineer - Angoulême, France (1806/70)
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1736-0815 Alexander Runciman* painter - Edinburgh, Scotland (1785/49)
1736-0826 Jean-Baptiste Louis Romé de l’Isle* mineralogist/ one of the creators of modern crystallography - Gray, Haute-Saône, France (1790/53)
1736-0910 Carter Braxton* merchant/ planter/ signer of the American Declaration of Independence - King and Queen County, Virginia, British America (1797/61)
1736-0915 Jean Sylvain Bailly* astronomer/ mayor/ political leader - Paris, France (1793/57)
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1736-1027 James Macpherson* writer/ poet/ politician - Ruthven, Inverness-shire, Scotland (1796/59)
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1736-1118 Anton Graff* portrait painter - Winterthur, Swiss Confederacy (1813/76)
1736-1130 Maria Petterintytär Hyövälti** (b Hällström) daughter of Petter Carlsson Hällström/mother of Mikko Matinpoika Rinta-Jussila - Ilmajoki, Sweden-Finland (1815/78)
1736-1204 Charles Michel* marquis de Villette/writer/politician - Paris, France (1793/)
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Updated 1.4.2023-3
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