1738

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Centuries:	17th century - 18th century - 19th century
Decades:	1700s  1710s  1720s  - 1730s -  1740s  1750s  1760s
Years:	1735 1736 1737 - 1738 - 1739 1740 1741

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Leaders:   State leaders - Colonial governors

Category: Establishments - Disestablishments

Births - Deaths - Works v • d • e

Year 1738 (MDCCXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1738 1.1 January - June 1.2 July - December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 2.1 Unknown dates 3 Deaths 3.1 Unknown dates

Events of 1738

January - June

• February 4 - Court Jew Joseph Suss Oppenheimer is executed in Württemberg.
• April 15 - Premiere in London of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.
• May 24 - John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day.

July - December

• November 13 - Ratification of the Treaty of Vienna.

Undated

• Russo–Turkish War (1735–1739): Russian forces fail to cross the Dniester and are decimated by plague.
• The Qing government announced that all western businessmen had to use the cohong in Guangzhou to trade.
• The excavation of Herculaneum, a Roman city buried by Vesuvius in AD 79, begins.
• Stanisław Leszczyński receives Lorraine in exchange for renouncing the Polish throne.
• Pierre Louis Maupertuis publishes Sur la figure de la terre, which 'confirms Newton's view that the earth is a spheroid slightly flattened at the poles'.
• Franz Ketterer invents the cuckoo clock.
• Jacques de Vaucanson presents the world's first automaton, The Flute Player, to the French Academy of Sciences.

Births

1738 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1738 MDCCXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2491
Armenian calendar	1187 ԹՎ ՌՃՁԷ
Bahá'í calendar	-106 – -105
Buddhist calendar	2282
Chinese calendar	4374/4434-11-12 (丁巳年十一月十二日) — to — 4375/4435-11-21 (戊午年十一月廿一日)
Ethiopian calendar	1730 – 1731
Hebrew calendar	5498 – 5499
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1793 – 1794
- Shaka Samvat	1660 – 1661
- Kali Yuga	4839 – 4840
Holocene calendar	11738
Iranian calendar	1116 – 1117
Islamic calendar	1150 – 1151
Japanese calendar	Genbun 3 (元文3年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2398 (皇紀2398年)
- Jōmon Era	11738
Julian calendar	1783
Korean calendar	4071
Thai solar calendar	2281
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• January 21 - Ethan Allen, American patriot (d. 1789)
• April 12 - Padre Francisco Garcés, Spanish missionary (d. 1781)
• April 14 - William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1809)
• April 16 - Henry Clinton, British officer (d. 1795)
• May 27 - Nathaniel Gorham, American politician (d. 1796)
• June 4 - King George III of the United Kingdom (d. 1820)

• July 3 - John Singleton Copley, American painter (d. 1815)
• September 25 - Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and President of Delaware (d. 1789)
• October 11 - Arthur Phillip, British admiral and Governor of New South Wales (d. 1814)
• October 18 - Andrei Bolotov, Russian agriculturalist and memoirist (d. 1833)
• November 15 - William Herschel, German-born astronomer (d. 1822)
• December 31 - Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, British general (d. 1805)

Unknown dates

• (none)

See also Category: 1738 births.

Deaths

• February 15 - Matthias Braun, Czech sculptor (born 1684)
• March 16 - George Bähr, German architect (born 1666)
• March 25 - Turlough O'Carolan, Irish harper and composer (born 1670)
• May 1 - Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle, English statesman (born c.1669)
• May 15 - Sir John Chesshyre, English lawyer (born 1662)
• June 5 - Isaac de Beausobre, French Protestant pastor (born 1659)
• June 21 - Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, English politician (born 1674)

• September 23 - Herman Boerhaave, Dutch humanist and physician (born 1668)
• December 22 - Constantia Jones, English prostitute (executed) (born c.1708)

Unknown dates

• (none)

See also Category: 1738 deaths.

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