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* 1738 – Premiere in London, England, Great Britain of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.
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* 1738 – Jacques François Dugommier, French general ( d. 1794 )
* 1683 – Jean-Joseph Mouret, French composer ( d. 1738 )
* 1738 – Leopold Hofmann, Austrian composer ( d. 1793 )
* 1738 – Real Academia de la Historia (" Royal Academy of History ") is founded in Madrid.
* 1738 – William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, English statesman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1809 )
Herman Boerhaave (, 31 December 1668 – 23 September 1738 ) was a Dutch botanist, humanist and physician of European fame.
There is some controversy over the identity of the disease, but in its virulent form, after the Great Plague of Marseille in 1720 – 1722, the Great Plague of 1738 ( which hit Eastern Europe ), and the Russian plague of 1770-1772, it seems to have gradually disappeared from Europe.
* 1738 – Richard Montgomery, Irish-born soldier ( d. 1775 )
* 1738 – Jan Antonín Koželuh, Bohemian composer ( d. 1814 )
* 1789 – Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and President of Delaware ( b. 1738 )
* 1684 – Matthias Braun, Czech sculptor ( d. 1738 )
By John Singleton Copley ( 1738 – 1815 )
Karl Friedrich ruled Baden 1738 – 1811 Baden sported perhaps the best government of the smaller states.
Karl Friedrich ruled well for 73 years ( 1738 – 1811 ) and was an enthusiast for The Enlightenment ; he abolished serfdom in 1783.
* 1738 – Canadian explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye reaches the western shore of Lake Michigan.
* 1820 – King George III of the United Kingdom ( b. 1738 )
* 1738 – Isaac de Beausobre, French pastor ( b. 1659 )
* 1663 – Franz Xaver Murschhauser, German composer and theorist ( d. 1738 )
* 1738 – John Singleton Copley, American painter ( d. 1815 )
* 1738 – Jacques Delille, French poet and translator ( d. 1813 )
* 1738 – Mary Katharine Goddard, American printer and publisher ( d. 1816 )
* 1738 – Ethan Allen, American military leader ( d. 1789 )
* John Brown ( North Carolina ) ( 1738 – 1812 ), pioneer and statesman
It was continued by various writers and grew to twenty-one volumes ( 1633 – 1738 ), including illustrations by the beautiful copperplate engravings of Matthäus Merian ( 1593 – 1650 ).
1738 and London
In 1738, while hearing Luther's Preface to the Epistle to the Romans read at St. Botolph Church on Aldersgate Street in London, John Wesley famously felt his heart " strangely warmed ", a conversion experience which is often seen as the beginning of Methodism.
The first English translation, by Gamaliel ben Pedahzur ( a pseudonym ), appeared in London in 1738 ; a different translation was released in the United States in 1837 .< ref >
The first-unauthorized-English translation, by Gamaliel ben Pedahzur ( a pseudonym ), appeared in London in 1738 ; a different translation was released in the United States in 1837.
In 1738, Sebastião de Melo, the talented son of a Lisbon squire, began a diplomatic career as the Portuguese Ambassador in London and later in Vienna.
It was first performed in the King's Theatre London on 15 April 1738.
An illustration of Andrea Palladio's Doric order, as it was laid out, with modules identified, by Isaac Ware, in The Four Books of Palladio's Architecture ( London, 1738 ) is illustrated at Vitruvian module.
The situation was not fully resolved until a London peace agreement in 1738, which cooled the colonies ' territorial dispute and set the stage for the later codification of the Mason – Dixon Line.
Charles Bannister ( 1738 – 1804 ), English actor and singer, was born in Gloucestershire, and after some amateur and provincial experience made his first London appearance in 1762 as Will in The Orators at the Haymarket Theatre.
Around 1738, the family moved to Greenwich, in London.
* Preface by Benjamin Hoadly to Clarke's Works ( 4 vols., London, 1738 – 1742 )
* Cornwallis, Charles, and Character of Henry-Frederic, Prince of Wales, London ( 1738 )
One of his first publications was Samuel Johnson's London, for which he paid ten guineas in 1738.
Born into a middle-class family in London, Blackstone was educated at Charterhouse School before matriculating at Pembroke College, Oxford in 1738.
It was first performed in London on 15 April 1738.
Corinthian capital, from Isaac Ware's edition of Andrea Palladio's I Quattro Libri dell ' Architettura | Four books … ( London 1738.
* The tryal of John Peter Zenger, of New-York, printer, who was lately try'd and acquitted for printing and publishing a libel against the government: with the pleadings and arguments on both sides London: Printed for J. Wilford 1738
The London department store Fortnum & Mason claims to have invented Scotch eggs in 1738, but they may have been inspired by the Moghul dish nargisi kofta (" Narcissus meatballs ").
In 1713 he was elected a member of the Academy of Inscriptions, in 1738 a member of the Royal Society of London, and in 1742 a member of that of Berlin.
He published a collection of translations of German hymns in 1737, A Collection of Psalms and Hymns, then returned to England in 1738, attending meetings of the Moravian Brethren in London.
" The Temple of Fortuna Virilis " in Isaac Ware, The Four Books of Andrea Palladio's Architecture, London, 1738.
The Warwickshire & Staffordshire Journal was certainly aware of the sport in 1738 for it carried a report of a London v Mitcham game at the Artillery Ground on 11 August ( London won by 1 wicket ).
Constantia Jones ( born c. 1708 – December 22, 1738 ) was a prostitute in London, UK during the term of Prime Minister Robert Walpole, who was sentenced to hang for stealing 36 shillings and a half-guinea ( the equivalent of about £ 300 today ) from one of her clients.
Doric Order, in Isaac Ware, The Four Books of Andrea Palladio's Architecture, London 1738
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