1728

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

January–June

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.
May 18 – Peter II succeeeds Catherine I as Tsar of Russia.

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.

Undated

Astronomical aberration is discovered by the astronomer James Bradley.
The Swedish Academy of Sciences is founded at Uppsala.
The University of Havana ([http://www.uh.cu/ Universidad de la Habana]), Cuba's most well-established university, is founded.
Frederick, Prince of Wales, son of King George II of Great Britain, arrives in Britain for the first time, aged 21.

Ongoing

Anglo-Spanish War (1727)

Births

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 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 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)

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)
date unknown – Serfoji I, third Raja of the Bhonsle dynasty (b. 1675)

Translation

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Translation(s) in other languages: Amharic: 1728 እ.ኤ.አ., Arabic: ملحق:1728, Bengali: ১৭২৮, Kannada: ೧೭೨೮, Bihari: १७२८, Erzya: 1728 ие, Persian: ۱۷۲۸ (میلادی), Korean: 1728년, Hindi: १७२८, Bishnupriya Manipuri: মারি ১৭২৮, Ossetian: 1728-æм аз, Haitian: 1728 (almanak gregoryen), Lithuanian: 1728 m., Marathi: इ.स. १७२८, Newar / Nepal Bhasa: १७२८, Japanese: 1728年, Pali: १७२८, Ripuarian: Joohr 1728, Russian: 1728 год, Sanskrit: १७२८, Thai: พ.ศ. 2271, Cantonese: 1728年, Chinese: 1728年.