Information about 1738
| Centuries: | 8th century - 9th century - 10th century |
| Decades: | 850s 860s 870s - 880s - 890s 900s 910s |
| Years: | 885 886 887 - 888 - 889 890 891 |
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Events of
January - June
- February 4 - Court Jew Joseph Suss Oppenheimer is executed in Württemberg.
- 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.
July - December
- November 18 - Ratification of the Treaty of Vienna.
Undated
- Russo–Turkish War (1735–1739): 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
| Gregorian calendar | 1738 MDCCXXXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2491 |
| Armenian calendar | 1187 ԹՎ ՌՃՁԷ |
| Bah' calendar | -106 – -105 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2282 |
| Chinese calendar | 4374/4434-8-8 (丁巳年八月初八日) — to — 4375/4435-6-17(戊午年六月十七日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1454 – 1455 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1730 – 1731 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5498 – 5499 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1793 – 1794 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1660 – 1661 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4839 – 4840 |
| Holocene calendar | 11738 |
| Iranian calendar | 1116 – 1117 |
| Islamic calendar | 1151 – 1152 |
| Japanese calendar | Genbun 0 (元文0年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2398 (皇紀2398年) |
| Julian calendar | 1783 |
| 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 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)
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Deaths
- February 15 - Matthias Braun, Czech sculptor (born 1684)
- March 16 - George Bähr, German architect (born 1666)
- March 25 - Turlough O'Carolan, Irish harper and composer (born 1670)
- May 1 - Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle, English statesman (born c.1669)
- May 15 - Sir John Chesshyre, English lawyer (born 1662)
- June 5 - Isaac de Beausobre, French Protestant pastor (born 1659)
- June 21 - Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, English politician (born 1674)
- September 23 - Herman Boerhaave, Dutch humanist and physician (born 1668)
- December 22 - Constantia Jones, English prostitute (executed) (born c.1708)
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- Upper Paleolithic
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-1738- 1739 . 1740 . 1741 1742 . 1743 . 1744 . 1745 . 1746 . 1747 .
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See also: 1737 in Canada, other events of 1738, 1739 in Canada and the list of 'years in Canada'.
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Events
- Smallpox strikes the Cherokee in the Southeast, killing almost half the population. Smallpox also reaches tribes in western Canada.
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1738 in Great Britain:
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1736 | 1737 | 1738 | 1739 | 1740 Events from the year 1738 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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1736 | 1737 | 1738 | 1739 | 1740 Events from the year 1738 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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Ashanti Confederacy - Opoku Ware I, Asantehene (1720-1750) Bunyoro - Duhaga, Omukama of Bunyoro (1731-c.1782) Dahomey - Tegbesu, King of Dahomey (1732-1774) Ethiopia - Iyasu II, Emperor of Ethiopia, (1730-1755) Nkore
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- Angola -
- Rodrigo César de Meneses, Governor of Angola (1733-1738)
- Joaquim Jacques de Magalhães, Governor of Angola (1738-1748)
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- Cosme Damiao Pinto Pereira, Governor of Macau (1735-1738)
- D. Diogo Pereira, Governor of Macau (1738-1743)
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