1736 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch: Louis XV

  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 Meänmaa of Finland.

  Births

• June 14 – Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist
• August 26 – Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, French geologist
• September 15 – Jean Sylvain Bailly, French astronomer

  Deaths

• April 24 – Prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general