Timeline March 1738

Events in March 1738 3

• 1738 Nadir Shah captures Kandahar and invades Mughal territory Persian conquest opens the road to India After a long siege, the Persian ruler Nadir Shah captured the fortress city of Kandahar, eliminating the last independent Afghan stronghold. He then pushed through Afghanistan toward the Mughal Empire, taking Ghazni, Kabul, and Peshawar by the end of the year, setting up the invasion of India completed the following year.
• 1738 Robert Jenkins displays severed ear to Parliament Incident that inflamed Anglo-Spanish tensions over Caribbean trade Sea captain Robert Jenkins testified before a House of Commons committee, producing his own ear, which he claimed Spanish coast guards had cut off years earlier while searching his ship for contraband. The incident stoked British public anger over Spanish search practices in the Caribbean and helped push Britain toward the War of Jenkins' Ear the following year.
• 1738 – 1781 Tupac Amaru II (1738-1781) Died 18 May 1781, aged 43 Born Jose Gabriel Condorcanqui, he led a major indigenous uprising against Spanish colonial rule in Peru, claiming descent from the last Inca ruler. After his rebellion was crushed, he was captured and executed in Cusco along with members of his family.