What Happened In 1728 - Historical Events 1728

Historical Events for the Year 1728

29th August » The city of Nuuk in Greenland is founded as the fort of Godt-Haab by the list of governors of Greenland named royal governor Claus Paarss.

9th January » Thomas Warton, English poet (d. 1790)
16th January » Niccolò Piccinni, Italian composer (d. 1800)
17th January » Johann Gottfried Müthel, German pianist and composer (d. 1788)
12th February » Étienne-Louis Boullée, French architect (d. 1799)
13th February » John Hunter (surgeon) known as John Hunter, Scottish surgeon (d. 1793)
21st February » Peter III of Russia (d. 1762)
25th February » John Wood, the Younger, English architect, designed the Royal Crescent (d. 1782)
22nd March » Anton Raphael Mengs, German painter (d. 1779)
16th April » Joseph Black, French-Scottish physician and chemist (d. 1799)
3rd July » Robert Adam, Scottish architect, designed Culzean Castle (d. 1792)
26th August » Johann Heinrich Lambert, Swiss mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (d. 1777)
28th August » John Stark, American general (d. 1822)
29th August » Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony (d. 1797)
7th October » Caesar Rodney, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 4th List of Governors of Delaware e.g Governor of Delaware (d. 1784)
7th November » James Cook, English captain, navigator, and cartographer (d. 1779)
10th November » Oliver Goldsmith, Irish-English author, poet, and playwright (d. 1774)
9th December » Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi, Italian composer (d. 1804)
21st December » Hermann Raupach, German composer (d. 1778)
25th December » Johann Adam Hiller, German composer and conductor (d. 1804)

12th February » Agostino Steffani, Italian diplomat and composer (b. 1653)
13th February » Cotton Mather, American minister and author (b. 1663)
3rd April » James Anderson (lawyer) called James Anderson, Scottish lawyer and historian (b. 1662)
15th August » Marin Marais, French viol player and composer (b. 1656)
23rd September » Christian Thomasius, German jurist and philosopher (b. 1655)
10th November » Fyodor Apraksin, Russian admiral (b. 1661)