1738

Decades: 1680s 1690s 1700s 1710s 1720s - 1730s - 1740s 1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s

Years: 1733 1734 1735 1736 1737 - 1738 - 1739 1740 1741 1742 1743

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

Year in topic

• 1738 in literature
• 1738 in science

Births

• January 21 - Ethan Allen, American patriot leader
• May 27 - Nathaniel Gorham, American politician (+1796)
• June 4 - King George III of the United Kingdom.
• Arthur Phillip, first governor of New South Wales, Australia

Deaths

Monarchs/Presidents

• China - Qianlong Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (reigned from October 18, 1735 to February 9, 1796)
• France - Louis XV King of France (reigned from 1715 to 1774)
• Great Britain - George II King of Great Britain (reigned from June 11, 1727 to October 25, 1760)
• Saxony - Frederick Augustus II Elector of Saxony (from 1733 to 1763) (also King of Poland)

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