History
1738
General
Population: 753 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Samuel Johnson London, Alex Piron (comedy), Jonathan Swift, Olof von Dalin (tragedy),
Lodovico Antonio Muratori (antiquities),
Art includes Chardin "La Gouvernante", Roubiliac "Alexander Pope"
Music includes JS Bach, Handel,
- Science: Daniel Bernoulli writes about pressure and viscosity of fluids
- Religion: Papal bull issued against Freemasonry
Methodist Church begins
- Deaths: Anatomist Casper Thomeson Bartholin, Joseph Suss Oppenheimer (Jew Suss) hanged
Asia
- India: Nadir Shah of Persia invades N India
Europe
- General: Treaty of Vienna ends War of Polish Succession - Lorraine ceded to France on death of Stanislaus I
Plague in the Balkans
- France: Jean H.L. Orry controller-general of finances devises the "Corvee" system of forced labor to construct roads
Bontaire introduces ideas of Isaac Newton to France
- German States: First cuckoo clocks in Black Forest district
Joseph Suss Oppenheimer (Jew Suss) financial adviser of Duke Karl Alexander of Wurtenberg hanged
- Great Britain: John and Charles Wesley start Methodism in Britain after Wesley and Whitfield in US
- Holy Roman Empire: Turks take Orsova – Imperial troops driven back to Belgrade
- Italian States: Excavation of Herculaneum begins
- Poland: End of war of Polish election - France defeated and Augustus III takes throne, but Poland weak
Lorraine ceded to France on death of Stanislaus I – defeated claimant to Polish throne
- Spain: GB Sacchetti begins work on royal palace in Madrid
Middle East
- Ottoman Empire: Turks take Orsova – Imperial troops driven back to Belgrade
General
- Religion: John Wesley's evangelical conversion – George Whitfield follows him to Georgia a "Leader of the Great Awakening"
Methodist church founded by Wesley and Whitfield
South
- Georgia: British troops sent to settle border dispute with Spain
Fugitive slaves flee to Creek tribe
- South Carolina: Smallpox outbreak