1738
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| Years: 1735 1736 1737 - 1738 - 1739 1740 1741 | |
| Decades: 1700s 1710s 1720s - 1730s - 1740s 1750s 1760s | |
| Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century 1738 in topic: Lists of leaders: | |
Events
- February 4 - Court Jew Joseph Suss Oppenheimer is executed in Württenberg
- 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
- November 13 - Ratification of the Treaty of Vienna
- The excavation of Herculaneum, a Roman city buried by Vesuvius in AD 79, begins.
- Stanislas 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
- January 21 - Ethan Allen, American patriot (d. 1789)
- April 12 - Padre Francisco Garcés, Spanish missionary (d. 1781)
- 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)
- October 11 - Arthur Phillip, British admiral and Governor of New South Wales (d. 1814)
- 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
- 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)
