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

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths

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