1728
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Cite This SourceYear 1728 (MDCCXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1728
January - June
- March 14 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau leaves Geneva for the first time.
July - December
- October 20/23 - The Copenhagen Fire of 1728 burns (the largest fire in the history of the city).
Undated
- Astronomical aberration is discovered by the astronomer James Bradley.
- The Swedish academy of sciences is founded at Uppsala.
- The University of Havana (Universidad de la Habana), Cuba's most well-established university, is founded.
- The war that started in 1727 between England and Spain ended.
Births
- January 9 - Thomas Warton, English poet (d. 1790)
- February 21 - Emperor Peter III of Russia, husband of Catherine the Great (d. 1762)
- August 28 - John Stark, American Revolutionary War general (d. 1822)
- September 14 - Mercy Otis Warren, American playwright (d. 1814)
- October 7 - Caesar Rodney, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1784)
- October 27 - James Cook, British naval captain and explorer (d. 1779)
- November 10 - Oliver Goldsmith, Irish writer (d. 1774)
- See also :Category: 1728 births.
Deaths
- February 12 - Agostino Steffani, Italian diplomat and composer (b. 1654)
- February 13 - Cotton Mather, New England Puritan minister (b. 1663)
- March 4 - Anna Petrovna of Russia, eldest daughter of Peter the Great (b. 1708)
- March 31 - Isaac Newton, English scientist (b. 1643)
- April 3 - James Anderson, Scottish historian (b. 1662)
- August 15 - Marin Marais, French viol player and composer (b. 1656)
- September 23 - Christian Thomasius, German jurist (b. 1655)
- November 19 - Leopold of Anhalt-Cöthen, German Prince (b. 1694)
- See also :Category: 1728 deaths.
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