1728
This page relates to the year 1728 Gregorian Calendrier.
Events
America
- May 1st: Beginning of the Rising of Terço Velho with the Brazil.
- August 29th: the Norwegian missionary Hans Egede founds Nuuk with the Greenland under the name of Godthåb.
- September 25th: Constitution of the Real Compañía Guipuzcoana of Caracas of Caracas which obtains the monopoly of the trade with the metropolis.
- Second war Fox: The French send an army of 400 soldiers and 800 Amerindians, with the continuation of the Renards. The villages and harvests are burned, but the Foxes succeed in concealing themselves.
- the Dane Vitus Bering explores the Alaska and discovers the Arctic Ocean.
Africa
- March 12th: The Portuguese take again Mombasa with Oman but must evacuate it the September 21st 1729 and limit their occupation with the Mozambique, in the south of the Lac Delgado.
Asia
India
- February 28th: Victoire marathe with the battle of Palkhed. The Peshwâ (Prime Minister) of the Marathes Baji Rao imposes on Nizam-ul-Mulk, the sovereign of Hyderabad, to recognize supremacy marathe on the Dekkan.
- Installation of Jaipur, residential city of the Râjput by Jai Singh II. The city is built broad streets and consists of several aligned rectangular spaces, of which one surrounds the palate.
Tibet
- laic Government of the Pholané general to the Tibet (fine in 1747). Two amban represent the emperor of China to Lhassa.
- the fights pro and anti Qing intensify with Lhassa. The seventh Dalai Lama and his family are anti-Qing. The catch forces capacity by the general Pholané mark the beginning of the direct influence of the China in the management of the businesses Tibetans. The seventh Dalai Lama is banished with extreme-is of Tibet; part of the Eastern Kham and Amdo pass under the domination of Qing; small Chinese garrisons are established in several areas and two imperial police chiefs Mandchous, the amban , are in station with Lhassa and to Shigatse, of the titles and the honors are granted to the noble Tibetans; the big business develops. The Pholané general, statesman and diplomat, ensure the interior stability of the country; the Manchu trusting him, it succeeds in keeping their interference in the interior matters on a purely formal level.
Europe
- 20 - October 23rd: Set fire to Copenhagen.
- Portugal: Revolt of the nobility, dissatisfied with the royal absolutism (the the Cortes are not joined together any more).
Russia
- February 24th: Crowning of Pierre II of Russia to Moscow.
- July: Tatare in Small-Russia attacks.
- the private Supreme council absorbs all the capacities. The Colleges are to him subordinates.
- Removal of the College of Small-Russia. The hetman is restored.
- the Council decides to join together a delegation in Moscow to complete the coding of the laws.
- the Ural: signature of a charter enters the State, the colonists Russian and the tribes wandering Bachkirs hitherto in conflict.
Religion
- November: The cardinal of Noailles is joined the bubble Unigenitus , disavowing its jansénisant past.
Art and culture
See also: 1728 with the theater
- January 29th: First with London of the Opera of the gueux ( The Beggar' S Operated ) John Gay (music of Johann Christoph Pepusch).
- March 14th: Jean-Jacques Rousseau leaves her birthplace (Geneva) with foot to go to Annecy, at Madam de Warens, an emigrated Protestant woman of Suisse, to which the priest of Confignon addressed it.
- April 21st: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, then sixteen years old, abjures the Protestantisme. He is baptized Catholique the 23.
- Montesquieu goes in Hungary, in Italy, Holland and England where it remains more than one year (1728 - 1731). In Italy (1728 - 1729), it observes the organization of the States and a relation leaves some where appears a general impression of incurie and of Italian decrepitude. It establishes regional nuances however.
- Gerhardt Friedrich Müller, of the Academy of Science of Russia, founds “ the News of Saint-Pétersbourg ”, inspired of the English periodicals mixing popular varieties and sciences.
- Triumph of Plutus , comedy of Marivaux.
- Dunciade , satire with the glory of the mediocrity of Alexander Pope.
- Philosophia rationalis sive Logica ( rational Philosophy or Logic ) of Christian Wolf.
- Henriade , poem of Voltaire.
- Publication with London of Cyclopaedia of Ephraim Chambers.
- the Line and the Dresser , dead natures of Jean Siméon Chardin, which is allowed with the royal Academy of painting and sculpture as painter of animals and fruits.
- James Gibbs publishes his Livre of Architecture .
Births in 1728
- February 12th: Etienne-Louis Swell, architect and theorist French
- February 21st: Pierre III of Russia, Tsar of Russia
- August 26th: Johann Heinrich Lambert, Franco-German mathematician († September 25th 1777)
- October 27th: James Cook, navigator and exploring British
- December 2nd: Ferdinando Galiani, Italian economist († October 30th 1787)
Death in 1728
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February 2nd: Hagopdjan de Deritchan, Persian consul of with Marseilles since 1715.
- August 15th: Marin Marais, Violist and type-setter French
Easter Day
- March 28th: Sunday of Easter.
- For other religious holidays, to see Comput.
- Bissextile Year .
Be-X-old: 1728 Map-bms: 1728 Simple: 1728 Zh-yue: 1728 年
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