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Gorgonzola
Sat Dec 09 2000 at 2:17:52
Born in 1738:
The future King
George III
of
Great Britain
.
Hanover
ian (later
British
) astronomer
William Herschel
.
Irish
architect
John Beresford
.
Irish folk musician
Turlough O'Carolan
.
Austrian
composer
Leopold Hofmann
.
British
aristocrat and general Lord
Charles Cornwallis
.
Italian
composer
Giovanni Battista Borghi
.
American
painter
John Singleton Copley
.
American-born painter
Benjamin West
.
Czech
composer
Jan Evangelista Antonin Kozeluh
.
Italian
jurist
Cesare Beccaria
.
german
painter
Anton Raphael Mengs
.
British
Revolutionary War
general
Henry Clinton
.
Died in 1738:
Dutch
physician
Hermann Boerhaave
.
French composer
Jean-Joseph Mouret
.
French diplomat and geographer
Benoit Maillet
.
Events of 1738:
Anglican
priests
John Wesley
,
Charles Wesley
, and
George Whitefield
claim to have
religious visions
that lead them to found
Methodism
.
The Spanish colonial government in
Florida
establishes a refuge for escaped slaves
from
Carolina
at
Fort Mose
.
The
Treaty of Vienna
ending the
War of the Polish Succession
is finally ratified (it was agreed to in
1735
). the terms are mostly
salami slicing
:
Augustus
, the
Elector of Saxony
, gets the throne of
Poland
.
France
agrees the
Pragmatic Sanction
allowing
Maria Theresa
to inherit the
Hapsburg
dominions.
French King
Louis XV
consoles his father-in-law
Stanislaus Leszczynski
, who had been the canididate preferred by Polish nobility, with the Duchy of
Lorraine
.
Francis Stephen, duke of Lorraine, is parked in
Tuscany
.
Spain gets
Naples
and
Sicily
, Austria gets
Parma
and
Piacenza
.
The government of Naples undertakes excavations at
Herculaneum
.
J F Brondel
invents the
flush toilet
.
William Champion
patents
a process for distilling
zinc
.
1737
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How They Were Made
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18th Century
1739
1737
William Herschel
Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend
Turlough O'Carolan
John Singleton Copley
George III
Scott Joplin
1670
Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges
1714
Herculaneum
1768
18th century
Methodism
flush toilet
John Wesley
Louis XV
classical music
Poland