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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1736.

Events

Charles Rivington founds a company of London booksellers known as the New Conger.^[1]

Anonymous – The Life of Marianne (fiction, translation of Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux)
Joseph Addison – The Works of Petronius Arbiter (translation)
John Armstrong – The Oeconomy of Love
Thomas Bayes – An Introduction to the Doctrine of Fluxions, and a Defence of the Mathematicians Against the Objections of the Author of the Analyst
Isaac Hawkins Browne – A Pipe of Tobacco
Joseph Butler – Analogy of Religion
Thomas Carte – Life of James Duke of Ormonde
William Rufus Chetwood – The Voyages. . . of William Owen Gwin Vaughan
Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon – Les Égarements du cœur et de l'esprit (Strayings of the Heart and Mind), part one
John Gyles – Memoirs of Odd Adventures, Strange Deliverances, &c. in the Captivity of John Gyles, Esq
Eliza Haywood – Adventures of Eovaai (later as The Unfortunate Princess)
Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab – Kitab at-tawhidt
Isaac Newton – Method of Fluxions
Elizabeth Singer Rowe – The History of Joseph
William Stukeley – Palaeographia Sacra
James Thomson – Britain
William Warburton – The Alliance Between Church and State (an answer to Benjamin Hoadly from the year before)
Leonard Welsted – The Scheme and Conduct of Providence
Diego de Torres Villarroel
- Los desahuciados del mundo y de la gloria (The Deathly Illness of the World and of Glory)
- Historia de historias

May 10 – George Steevens, English Shakespearean editor and hoaxer (died 1800)
June 25 – John Horne Tooke, English controversialist and cleric (died 1812)
October 27 – James Macpherson, Scottish writer, poet and politician (died 1796)
Unknown dates
- Robert Jephson, Irish dramatist and politician (died 1803)
- James Ridley (Sir Charles Morell), English novelist and story writer (died 1765)

January 8 – Jean Le Clerc, Swiss theologian (born 1657)^[2]
February 9 – Barnaby Bernard Lintot, English bookseller and publisher (born 1675)
March 18 – Jacob Tonson, English bookseller and publisher (born c. 1655)
April 30 – Johann Albert Fabricius, German scholar and bibliographer (born 1668)
July 16 – Thomas Yalden, English poet and translator (born 1670)

^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1896). "Rivington, Charles" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 48. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
^ Vincent, Benjamin (1877) "Leclerc, Jean (1657-1736)" A Dictionary of Biography, Past and Present: Containing the chief events in the lives of eminent persons of all ages and nations Ward, Lock, & Co., London