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What Happened In Year 1738?

• April 15, 1738 – Premiere in London, England, Great Britain of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.
• April 18, 1738 – Real Academia de la Historia (“Royal Academy of History”) is founded in Madrid.
• May 24, 1738 – John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day and a church service is generally held on the preceding Sunday.
• May 25, 1738 – A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners.
• July 20, 1738 – Canadian explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye reaches the western shore of Lake Michigan.

Who Were Born In The Year 1738?

• January 10, 1738 – Ethan Allen, American military leader (d. 1789)
• March 11, 1738 – Benjamin Tupper, Continental Army officer, and pioneer to the Ohio Country (d. 1792)
• April 14, 1738 – William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1809)
• May 1, 1738 – King Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii (d. 1819)
• May 8, 1738 – Mikhail Kamensky, Russian general (d. 1809)
• May 27, 1738 – Nathaniel Gorham, 8th President of the United States in Congress Assembled (d. 1796)
• May 28, 1738 – Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, French physician (d. 1814)
• June 4, 1738 – King George III of the United Kingdom (d. 1820)
• June 16, 1738 – Mary Katharine Goddard, American printer and publisher (d. 1816)
• June 22, 1738 – Jacques Delille, French poet and translator (d. 1813)
• July 3, 1738 – John Singleton Copley, American painter (d. 1815)
• August 1, 1738 – Jacques François Dugommier, French general (d. 1794)
• September 25, 1738 – Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and President of Delaware (d. 1789)
• October 6, 1738 – Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (d. 1789)
• October 11, 1738 – Arthur Phillip, Governor of New South Wales (d. 1814)
• November 15, 1738 – William Herschel, German-born astronomer (d. 1822)
• December 2, 1738 – Richard Montgomery, Irish-born soldier (d. 1775)
• December 31, 1738 – Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, British general (d. 1805)

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