April 6 » At the Cape of Good Hope, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes Cape Town.
May 18 » Slavery in Rhode Island is abolished, although the law is not rigorously enforced.
June 20 » Tarhoncu Ahmed Pasha is appointed Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire.
August 16 » Battle of Plymouth: Inconclusive naval action between the fleets of Michiel de Ruyter and George Ayscue in the First Anglo-Dutch War.
September 7 » Around 15,000 Han farmers and militia rebel against Dutch rule on Taiwan.
December 10 » Defeat at the Battle of Dungeness causes the Commonwealth of England to reform its navy.
Day of death February 26, 1736
The temperature on February 26, 1736 was about 3.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly west. Weather type: geheel betrokken hagel sneeuw. Source: KNMI
January 26 » Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne.
March 8 » Nader Shah, founder of the Afsharid dynasty, is crowned Shah of Iran.
April 15 » Foundation of the Kingdom of Corsica.
May 26 » The Battle of Ackia was fought near the present site of Tupelo, Mississippi. British and Chickasaw soldiers repelled a French and Choctaw attack on the then-Chickasaw village of Ackia.
October 16 » Mathematician William Whiston's predicted comet fails to strike the Earth.
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