Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1700s  1710s  1720s  – 1730s –  1740s  1750s  1760s
Years:	1735 1736 1737 – 1738 – 1739 1740 1741

1738 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science

Countries:   Canada – Great Britain –

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 3 Deaths

[edit] Events of 1738

[edit] January–June

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

[edit] July–December

• November 18 – The Treaty of Vienna is ratified.

[edit] Undated

• Russo–Turkish War (1735–1739): The Russian army fails to cross the Dniester. They are decimated by plague.
• China's Qing government announces that all western businessmen have 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.

[edit] Births

1738 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1738 MDCCXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2491
Armenian calendar	1187 ԹՎ ՌՃՁԷ
Bahá'í calendar	-106 – -105
Berber calendar	2688
Buddhist calendar	2282
Burmese calendar	1100
Byzantine calendar	7246 – 7247
Chinese calendar	丁巳年十一月十二日 (4374/4434-11-12) — to — 戊午年十一月廿一日 (4375/4435-11-21)
Coptic calendar	1454 – 1455
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)
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 1 – King Kamehameha I of Hawaii (d. 1819)
• 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)

[edit] Deaths

• February 15 – Matthias Braun, Czech sculptor (b. 1684)
• March 16 – George Bähr, German architect (b. 1666)
• March 25 – Turlough O'Carolan, Irish harper and composer (b. 1670)
• May 1 – Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle, English statesman (b. c. 1669)
• May 15 – Sir John Chesshyre, English lawyer (b. 1662)
• June 5 – Isaac de Beausobre, French Protestant pastor (b. 1659)
• June 21 – Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, English politician (b. 1674)
• September 23 – Herman Boerhaave, Dutch humanist and physician (b. 1668)
• December 22 – Constantia Jones, English prostitute (executed) (b. c. 1708)