1728

This article is about the year 1728. For the number, see 1728 (number).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1690s 1700s 1710s – 1720s – 1730s 1740s 1750s
Years:	1725 1726 1727 – 1728 – 1729 1730 1731

1728 by topic:
Arts and Sciences
Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science
Countries
Canada – Great Britain –
Lists of leaders
Colonial governors – State leaders
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
Works category
Works

1728 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	1728 MDCCXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2481
Armenian calendar	1177 ԹՎ ՌՃՀԷ
Assyrian calendar	6478
Bengali calendar	1135
Berber calendar	2678
British Regnal year	1 Geo. 2 – 2 Geo. 2
Buddhist calendar	2272
Burmese calendar	1090
Byzantine calendar	7236–7237
Chinese calendar	丁未年 (Fire Goat) 4424 or 4364 — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 4425 or 4365
Coptic calendar	1444–1445
Discordian calendar	2894
Ethiopian calendar	1720–1721
Hebrew calendar	5488–5489
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1784–1785
- Shaka Samvat	1650–1651
- Kali Yuga	4829–4830
Holocene calendar	11728
Igbo calendar	728–729
Iranian calendar	1106–1107
Islamic calendar	1140–1141
Japanese calendar	Kyōhō 13 (享保１３年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4061
Minguo calendar	184 before ROC 民前184年
Thai solar calendar	2270–2271

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Year 1728 (MDCCXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

Events

February 28 – At the Battle of Palkhed, Maratha Peshwa Baji Rao I defeats the Mughal Governor of Deccan, Nizam-ul-Mulk.
March 14 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau leaves Geneva for the first time.

July 14–August 14 – Vitus Bering sails northward from the Kamchatka Peninsula, through the Bering Strait, and round Cape Dezhnev.
Late Summer – Voltaire ends his exile in England.
August 29 city of Nuuk founded in Greenland as fort Godt-Haab by royal governor Claus Paarss.
October 20–October 23 – The Copenhagen Fire of 1728 (the largest in the city's history) burns.

January 9 – Thomas Warton, English poet (d. 1790)
February 3 – Charles Rainsford, British General (d. 1809)
February 21 – Emperor Peter III of Russia, husband of Catherine the Great (d. 1762)
February 25 – John Wood, the Younger, English architect (d. 1782)
April 16 – Joseph Black, Scottish physicist and chemist (d. 1799)
August 26 – Johann Heinrich Lambert, Swiss mathematician, physicist and astronomer (d. 1777)
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 5 – Chevalier d'Eon, French diplomat, spy, soldier and transvestite (d. 1810)
October 7 – Caesar Rodney, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1784)
October 27 – James Cook, British naval commander and explorer (d. 1779)
November 10 – Oliver Goldsmith, Irish writer (d. 1774)

February 12 – Agostino Steffani, Italian diplomat and composer (b. 1654)
February 13 – Cotton Mather, New England Puritan minister (b. 1663)
March 4 – Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia, eldest daughter of Peter the Great (b. 1708)
April 3 – James Anderson, Scottish historian (b. 1662)
May 14 – Louise Marie d'Orléans, Mademoiselle, French princess (b.1726)
August 15 – Marin Marais, French viol player and composer (b. 1656)
August 26 – Anne Marie d'Orléans Queen consort of Sicily and Sardinia (b.1669)
September 23 – Christian Thomasius, German jurist (b. 1655)
November 19 – Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, German Prince (b. 1694)

Serfoji I, third Raja of the Bhonsle dynasty (b. 1675)
- Dionysius Andreas Freher, German mystic (b. 1649)

↑ Delambre, J. B. (1827). Histoire de l'astronomie au dix-huitième siècle. Paris: Bachelier.