1728

1728 (MDCCXXVIII) was a leap year beginning on Thursday according to the Gregorian calendar.

Events

• January 5: the University of Havana is founded.
• February 15: The Duke of Wharton founded in Madrid (Spain) the first Masonic core of the country, named "Three Flowers of lys".
• June 27: Martín de Barúa founded the city of Itauguá in Paraguay.
• August 29: Hans Egede founded Godthåbthe current Nuuk, the capital of Greenland.
• September 25: The Guipuzcoana Company is created to deal with Venezuela's trade with the metropolis (Spain)
• October 20-23: The Copenhagen Fire of 1728, the largest fire in the history of the city, is happening.
• The Danish explorer Vitus Jonassen Bering discovers the Bering Strait.

Art and literature

• January 29: John Gay and John Christopher Pepusch premiere The Beggar's Opera London.

Science and technology

• James Bradley discovers astronomical aberration.
• M. Falcon, French weaver, invents the first pierced card-controlled loom.
• Pierre Fauchard Public dentist in Paris his comprehensive text El Cirujano Dentista or the tooth treatise (Le Chirurgien Dentiste ou Traité des dents) where he describes oral anatomy physiology different dental techniques and even oral implants.

Births

• January 9: Thomas Warton, British poet (f. 1790)
• 12 February: Étienne-Louis Boullée, French architect (f. 1799)
• 13 February: John Hunter, British surgeon and anatomy (f. 1793)
• April 28: Ubaldo Gandolfi, Italian painter (f. 1781)
• August 26: Johann Heinrich Lambert, mathematician, physicist and German astronomer of French origin (f. 1777)
• 17 September: Basilio Sancho de Santa Justa, arzobispo español (f. 1787)
• September 23: Carlo Allioni, Italian physician and botanist (f. 1804)
• 21 October: Count of Floridablanca, Spanish politician (f. 1808)
• October 27: James Cook, British navigator and discoverer (f. 1779)

Deaths

• Tomás de Torrejón and Velasco Sánchez, Baroque composer.