This article is about the year 1738.
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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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 |
1738 by topic: | |
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Gregorian calendar | 1738 MDCCXXXVIII |
Ab urbe condita | 2491 |
Armenian calendar | 1187 ԹՎ ՌՃՁԷ |
Assyrian calendar | 6488 |
Bahá'í calendar | -106–-105 |
Bengali calendar | 1145 |
Berber calendar | 2688 |
British Regnal year | 11 Geo. 2 – 12 Geo. 2 |
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 | 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) |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 11 days |
Korean calendar | 4071 |
Minguo calendar | 174 before ROC 民前174年 |
Thai solar calendar | 2281 |
Year 1738 (MDCCXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.
Events
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
- Sept 18 – Samuel Johnson composes his first solemn prayer. Published 1785.
- November 18 – The Treaty of Vienna is ratified.
Date unknown
- 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
- 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)