1728

1728

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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Category: Establishments - Disestablishments

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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).

Events of 1728

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

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.

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)

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