1728

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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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Events of 1728

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

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)
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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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