1728
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Centuries: | 17th century - 18th century - 19th century |
Decades: | 1690s 1700s 1710s - 1720s - 1730s 1740s 1750s |
Years: | 1725 1726 1727 - 1728 - 1729 1730 1731 |
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Year 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).
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[edit] Events of 1728
[edit] January - June
- March 14 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau leaves Geneva for the first time.
[edit] July - December
- October 20/23 - The Copenhagen Fire of 1728 burns (the largest fire in the history of the city).
[edit] 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.
[edit] Births
Gregorian calendar | 1728 MDCCXXVIII |
Ab urbe condita | 2481 |
Armenian calendar | 1177 ԹՎ ՌՃՀԷ |
Bahá'í calendar | -116 – -115 |
Berber calendar | 2678 |
Buddhist calendar | 2272 |
Burmese calendar | 1090 |
Chinese calendar | 4364/4424-11-20 (丁未年十一月二十日) — to —
4365/4425-12-1(戊申年十二月初一日) |
Coptic calendar | 1444 – 1445 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1720 – 1721 |
Hebrew calendar | 5488 – 5489 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1783 – 1784 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1650 – 1651 |
- Kali Yuga | 4829 – 4830 |
Holocene calendar | 11728 |
Iranian calendar | 1106 – 1107 |
Islamic calendar | 1140 – 1141 |
Japanese calendar | Kyōhō 13 (享保13年) |
Korean calendar | 4061 |
Thai solar calendar | 2271 |
- 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 3 - Matthew Boulton, English manufacturer and lifelong key partner of James Watt (d. 1809)
- 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.
[edit] 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)
- 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)
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- See also Category: 1728 deaths.