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

1728 in topic:

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Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science

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Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

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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

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

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