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4 June (New Style, 24 May Old Style) King George III of the United Kingdom (died 1820) James Martin, radical politician (died 1810) 11 October – Arthur Phillip, admiral and Governor of New South Wales (died 1814) 15 November – William Herschel, German-born British astronomer (died 1822)
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 ...
In Morning, a lady makes her way to church, shielding herself with her fan from the shocking view of two men pawing at the market girls.The scene is the west side of the piazza at Covent Garden, indicated by a part of the Palladian portico of Inigo Jones's Church of St Paul visible behind Tom King's Coffee House, a notorious venue celebrated in pamphlets of the time.
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.
Drivers in Wheeling, W. Va. got an interesting surprise Wednesday morning when many spotted a woman walking a naked man outside of an apartment building along Route 40, according to 'The Smoking Gun.'
Lewis and Clark. Smith was born in Jericho, now Bainbridge, Chenango County, New York, on January 6, 1799, [3] [a] [4] to Jedediah Smith I, a general store owner from New Hampshire, and Sally Strong, both of whom were descended entirely from families that came to New England from England during the Puritan emigration between 1620 and 1640.
1733–1738: War of the Polish Succession. 1734: Letters Concerning the English Nation by Voltaire published in French. 1735–1739: Russo-Turkish War. 1735–1799: The Qianlong Emperor of China oversees a huge expansion in territory. 1735: Governor-General Dirck van Cloon dies, one of many victims of malaria in Batavia. [9]
Conocotocko [a] / ˌ k ʌ n ə k ə ˈ t oʊ k oʊ / (Cherokee: ᎬᎾᎦᏙᎦ, romanized: Gvnagadoga, "Standing Turkey"), also known by the folk-etymologized name Cunne Shote, [b] was First Beloved Man of the Cherokee from 1760. He succeeded his uncle Conocotocko I (or "Old Hop") upon the latter's death.