1728 in Great Britain

Events from the year 1728 in Great Britain.

Incumbents

29 January - First performance of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera.^[1]
March - Spain ends its siege of Gibraltar.^[2]
Late Summer - Voltaire ends his exile in England.
September - Astronomer James Bradley uses stellar aberration (first observed in 1725) to calculate the speed of light.^[3]
James Bradley observes nutation of the Earth's axis.^[3]
The King's son Frederick, Prince of Wales, arrives in Britain for the first time, aged 21.
Probable date at which the brown rat first enters Britain.^[4]

^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
^ ^a ^b ^c Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
^ ^a ^b Delambre, J. B. (1827). Histoire de l'astronomie au dix-huitième siècle. Paris: Bachelier.
^ Berkenhout, John (1769). Outlines of the Natural History of Great Britain.