In the year 1738, Jacques de Vaucanson stages the first demonstration of an early automaton in Paris (Feb 11), Samuel Johnson composes his first solemn prayer (Sep 18), Franz Ketterer produces one of the earliest cuckoo clocks, Rémy Martin is granted exclusive permission by King Louis XV of France to plant new vineyards, for impressing him with the quality of his cognac - and all these fine people were born:
1738-xxxx Lisa Eriksdotter Smeds** mother of Johan Mattsson Smeds - Munsala, Sweden-Finland (1801/62-63)
1738-0107 Matthias Calonius* renowned jurist/statesman - Saarijärvi, Sweden-Finland (1817/79)
1738-0121 Ethan Allen* farmer/businessman/one of the founders of the state of Vermont – Litchfield, Connecticut Colony (1789/51)
1738-0206 Pierre-Joseph Desault* anatomist/surgeon - Vouhenans, France (1795/57)
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1738-0310 Túpac Amaru II* leader of a large Andean uprising against the Spanish/son of the last Incan ruler – Cuzco, Viceroyalty of Peru (1781/43)
1738-0311 Benjamin Tupper* soldier in the French and Indian War – Sharon, Massachusetts (1792/54)
1738-0315 Maria Simontytär Hunnakko** (b Pänkälä) mother of Liisa Hunnakko - Alavus, Sweden-Finland (c. 1793/c. 55)
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1738-0412 Francisco Garcés* missionary/explorer - Morata de Jalón, Zaragoza, Spain (1781/43)
1738-0528 Joseph-Ignace Guillotin* physician/politician/proposed the use of a more human device to carry out death penalties in France - Saintes, France (1814/75)
1738-0604 George III of the United Kingdom* - Norfolk House, London, England (1820/81)
1738-0616 Mary Katherine Goddard* publisher/postmaster – Connecticut Colony (1816/78)
1738-0722 Anne d’Yves* politically active noble/pamphlet writer/ participant in the Brabant revolution - Brussels (1814/75)
1738-0925 Nicholas Van Dyke* lawyer/President of Delaware - New Castle County, Delaware (1789/50)
1738-1115 William Herschel* astronomer /discoverer of Uranus – Hanover, Holy Roman Empire (1822/83)
1738-1122 Johan Grysselius* physician/ornithologist/active in Finland - Gällersta, Sweden (1788/49)
1738-1202 Richard Montgomery* soldier/farmer/general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War – Swords, Dublin, Kingdom of Ireland (1775/37)
Updated 11.4.2023-1
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