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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 literature 1738 in music 1738 in science List of state leaders in 1738 List of religious leaders in 1738

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

Births

• January 21 - Ethan Allen, American patriot leader
• May 27 - Nathaniel Gorham, American politician (+1796)
• June 4 - King George III of the United Kingdom.
• November 15 - William Herschel, astronomer (d. 1822)
• Arthur Phillip, first governor of New South Wales, Australia

Deaths