1738

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:
Arts
Architecture - Literature - Music
Other topics
Canada – Science

Lists of leaders:
Colonial governors - State leaders

Events

April 15 – - Premiere in London of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.
November 13 – Ratification of the Treaty of Vienna

The excavation of Herculaneum, a Roman city buried by Vesuvius in AD 79, begins.
John and Charles Wesley form the Methodist Society, on their return to England.
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

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)

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