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1738

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1738 - 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 Qing government announced that all western businessmen had to use the cohong in Guangzhou to trade.
• 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

1738 - 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)

1738 - 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)

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