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1736 In France
Events from the year 1736 in France. Incumbents *Monarch: Louis XV Events * * * May 26 – Battle of Ackia: Great Britain, British and Chickasaw Native Americans defeat France, 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 * February 19 – Simon Charles Miger, engraver (d. 1828 in France, 1828) * March 21 – Claude Nicolas Ledoux, neoclassical architect (d. 1806 in France, 1806) * June 14 – Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, physicist (d. 1806) * June 22 – Auguste-Louis de Rossel de Cercy, painter primarily of naval scenes (d. 1804 in France, 1804) * August 26 – Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, geologist (d. 1790 in France, 1790) * September 15 – Jean Sylvain Bailly, astronomer (d. 1793 in France, 1793) * November 30 – Jean-Jacques de Boissieu, painter and etcher (d. 1810 in France, 1810) * Honoré Blanc, gunsmith (d. 1801 in Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its Metropolitan France, metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea; overseas territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean. Due to its several coastal territories, France has the largest exclusive economic zone in the world. France borders Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Monaco, Italy, Andorra, and Spain in continental Europe, as well as the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Netherlands, Suriname, and Brazil in the Americas via its overseas territories in French Guiana and Saint Martin (island), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
