1728

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Art - Literature (Poetry) - Music - Science

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Births - Deaths - Works v • d • e

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).

Contents 1 Events of 1728 1.1 January - June 1.2 July - December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths

[edit] Events of 1728

[edit] January - June

• March 14 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau leaves Geneva for the first time.

[edit] July - December

• Late Summer - Voltaire ends his exile in England
• October 20/23 - The Copenhagen Fire of 1728 (the largest in the city's history) burns.

[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 ends.

[edit] Births

1728 in other calendars

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
Byzantine calendar	7236 – 7237
Chinese calendar	丁未年十一月二十日 (4364/4424-11-20) — to — 戊申年十二月初一日 (4365/4425-12-1)
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
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• January 9 - Thomas Warton, English poet (d. 1790)
• February 21 - Emperor Peter III of Russia, husband of Catherine the Great (d. 1762)
• April 16 - Joseph Black, Scottish physicist and chemist (d. 1799)
• 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)

See also Category: 1728 deaths.