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April 11 – Robert Blair marries Isabella Law.; July 10 – Richard Dawes is appointed Master of the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle. [1]August – Laurence Sterne is ordained a priest, and in the autumn becomes vicar of Sutton-on-the-Forest, Yorkshire.
1738 (MDCCXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1738th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 738th year of the 2nd millennium, the 38th year of the 18th century, and the 9th year of the 1730s decade. As of the start ...
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One day in May 1786, Lincoln was working in his field with his three sons when he was shot from the nearby forest and fell to the ground. The eldest boy, Mordecai, ran to the cabin where a loaded gun was kept, while the middle son, Josiah, ran to Hughes' Station for help. Thomas, the youngest, stood in shock by his father.
He was the secretary of St. John's Lodge in Philadelphia from 1735 to 1738. [43] In January 1738, "Franklin appeared as a witness" in a manslaughter trial against two men who killed "a simple-minded apprentice" named Daniel Rees in a fake Masonic initiation gone wrong.
A 12-year-old Wisconsin boy heroically shot and killed a 200-pound black bear that was mauling his dad while pinning him to the ground. Owen Beierman shot the bear in its vitals, saving his 43 ...
Many of 8,000 men in Newfoundland fishery are "fresh land-men" who through hard work and weather "become pretty good sailors" [9] Newfoundland will begin prosecuting capital offences, sparing testifiers expensive trip to British court and loss of year's fishing [10]
Between 1738 and 1739, a smallpox epidemic broke out among the Cherokee who resided in the Province of North Carolina, as well as in the Province of South Carolina. The epidemic was most damaging in Eastern North Carolina. The epidemic decimated the Cherokee and Catawba peoples, causing the deaths of about half of each tribe's population. Many ...