1738

Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century

Decades: 1680s 1690s 1700s 1710s 1720s - 1730s - 1740s 1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s

Years: 1733 1734 1735 1736 1737 - 1738 - 1739 1740 1741 1742 1743

• 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.
• November 13 - Ratification of the Treaty of Vienna
• Stanislas receives Lorraine in exchange for renouncing the Polish throne.
• Pierre de Maupertuis[?] publishes Sur la figure de la terre, which 'confirms Newton's view that the earth is a spheroid slightly flattened at the poles'.

Births

• January 21 - Ethan Allen, American patriot leader
• May 27 - Nathaniel Gorham, American politican (+1796)
• June 4 - King George III of the United Kingdom.

Deaths