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 various calendars Gregorian calendar 1738 MDCCXXXVIII Ab urbe condita 2491 Armenian calendar 1187 ԹՎ ՌՃՁԷ Assyrian calendar 6488 Balinese saka calendar 1659–1660 Bengali calendar 1145 Berber calendar 2688 British Regnal year 11 Geo. 2 – 12 Geo. 2 Buddhist calendar 2282 Burmese calendar 1100 Byzantine calendar 7246–7247 Chinese calendar 丁巳年 (Fire Snake) 4435 or 4228     — to — 戊午年 (Earth Horse) 4436 or 4229 Coptic calendar 1454–1455 Discordian calendar 2904 Ethiopian calendar 1730–1731 Hebrew calendar 5498–5499 Hindu calendars  - Vikram Samvat 1794–1795  - Shaka Samvat 1659–1660  - Kali Yuga 4838–4839 Holocene calendar 11738 Igbo calendar 738–739 Iranian calendar 1116–1117 Islamic calendar 1150–1151 Japanese calendar Genbun 3 (元文３年) Javanese calendar 1662–1663 Julian calendar Gregorian minus 11 days Korean calendar 4071 Minguo calendar 174 before ROC 民前174年 Nanakshahi calendar 270 Thai solar calendar 2280–2281 Tibetan calendar 阴火蛇年 (female Fire-Snake) 1864 or 1483 or 711     — to — 阳土马年 (male Earth-Horse) 1865 or 1484 or 712

Events

• January 1 - Bouvet Island is discovered by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier.

• 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 (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)

Deaths

• December 22 - Constantia Jones, English prostitute (executed)