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Everything about 1728 totally explainedYear 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
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 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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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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