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Everything about 1738 totally explainedYear 1738 ( MDCCXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1738
January - June
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
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 1 - King Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii (d. 1819)
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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