| 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 |
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).
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Events of 1738
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.
July - December
- November 18 - The Treaty of Vienna is ratified.
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.
Births
| 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 |
- 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)
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)
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