Today in History for Year 1738

Months in Year 1738: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 12 of 12

Mar 28th - English parliament declares war on Spain (War of Jenkin's Ear)
Apr 15th - Bottle opener invented
Apr 15th - Premiere in London of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.
Apr 18th - Real Academia de la Historia ("Royal Academy of History") founded in Madrid.
May 9th - England routes fleet in Mediterranean Sea & West-Indies
May 24th - John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day.
May 25th - A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners.
May 27th - Turkish troops occupy Orsova & Ochakov
Jul 20th - North America: French explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye reaches the western shore of Lake Michigan.
Aug 2nd - France offers emperor Karel VI mediation in war against Turkey
Nov 18th - France & Austria sign peace
Dec 9th - Jews are expelled from Breslau Silesia

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 33 of 33

Jan 10th - Ethan Allen, Revolutionary War fighter (lead the Green Mtn Boys)
Mar 11th - Benjamin Tupper, Continental Army officer, and pioneer to the Ohio Country (d. 1792)
Apr 14th - William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1783, 1807-09) Dies 1809.
Apr 16th - Henry Clinton, British general (d. 1795)
Apr 17th - Philip Hayes, composer
May 1st - Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii (1782-1819) (d. 1819)
May 4th - Josef Kohaut, composer
May 8th - Mikhail Kamensky, Russian general (d. 1809)
May 9th - John Pindar, [Peter], physician/poet
May 27th - Bonaventura Furlanetto, composer
May 27th - Nathaniel Gorham, American politician (d. 1796)
May 28th - Joseph Ignace Guillotin, France, physician/inventor (guillotine)
Jun 3rd - Johann Christoph Oley, composer
Jun 4th - George III, London England, King of Great Britain (1760-1820)
Jun 16th - Mary Katharine Goddard, American printer and publisher (d. 1816)
Jun 22nd - Jacques Delille, French poet and translator (d. 1813)
Jun 29th - Constantin Reindl, composer
Jul 3rd - John Singleton Copley, Mass, finest colonial American artist
Jul 11th - Albert-Kasimir, duke of Saxon/viceroy of Hungary/Netherlands
King of Hawaii Kamehameha I (May 1st) Jul 24th - Elizabeth "Betje" Wolff-Bekker, Dutch author/poet (Sara Burgerhart)
Aug 1st - Jacques François Dugommier, French general (d. 1794)
Sep 22nd - Dionysius G Van de Keessel, lawyer (Theses Selectae)
Sep 25th - Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and President of Delaware (d. 1789)
Oct 6th - Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (d. 1789)
Oct 10th - Benjamin West, painter (Death of General Wolfe)
Oct 11th - Arthur Phillip, admiral/1st governor New-South Wales
Oct 14th - Giovanni Calisto Andrea Zanotti, composer
Nov 15th - F William Herschel, German/English astronomer (discovered Uranus)
Dec 2nd - Richard Montgomery, Irish-born soldier (d. 1775)
Dec 14th - Johann Antonin Kozeluch, composer
Dec 26th - Thomas Nelson, merchant, signer of Declaration of Independence
Dec 28th - Thaddaus Ferdinand Lipowsky, composer
Dec 31st - Charles Lord Cornwallis, soldier/statesman "fire when ready Gridley"

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 20 of 20

Jan 6th - Franz Xaver Murschhauser, composer, dies at 74
Jan 17th - Jean-Francois Dandrieu, composer, dies
Feb 5th - Georg Reidel, German composer, dies at 61
Feb 12th - James Sherard, composer, dies at 71
Feb 15th - Matthias Braun, Czech sculptor (b. 1684)
Mar 16th - George Bähr, German architect (Frauenkirche, Dresden), dies at 72
Mar 25th - Turlough O'Carolan, Irish harper and composer (b. 1670)
May 1st - Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle, English statesman (b. c. 1669)
Jun 5th - Isaac de Beausobre, French Protestant pastor (b. 1659)
Jun 21st - Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, English statesman (b. 1674)
Jul 15th - Alexander Voznitsyn, Rus Naval officer converted to Judaism, executed
Jul 15th - Antonio Maria Pacchioni, composer, dies at 84
Jul 15th - Baruch Leibov, converted Russian Naval officer to Judaism, executed
Aug 9th - Pierre Drevet, French engraver, dies
Aug 16th - Joe Miller, English comic, dies
Aug 29th - Georg Reuter, composer, dies at 81
Sep 23rd - Hermannus Boerhaave, medical/botanist, dies at 69
Dec 13th - Gotthard Wagner, composer, dies at 59
Dec 22nd - Jean-Joseph Mouret, composer, dies at 56
Dec 22nd - Constantia Jones, British prostitute (executed)