1738

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:

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).

Contents 1 Events of 1738 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths

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

1738 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1738 MDCCXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2491
Armenian calendar	1187 ԹՎ ՌՃՁԷ
Bahá'í calendar	-106 – -105
Bengali calendar	1145
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
- Bikram Samwat	1794 – 1795
- 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)