1728

{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;"\n|- \n| align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1725 1726 1727 - 1728 - 1729 1730 1731\n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1690s 1700s 1710s - 1720s - 1730s 1740s 1750s\n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
17th century - 18th century - 19th century

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1728 in literature
\n1728 in music
\n1728 in science
\n----\nList of state leaders in 1728
\nList of religious leaders in 1728
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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

\n* Astronomical aberration discovered by the astronomer James Bradley\n* Swedish academy of sciences founded at Uppsala \n

Births

\n* February 21 - Emperor Peter III of Russia, husband of Catherine the Great (+ 1762)\n* August 28 - John Stark, American Revolutionary War general\n* September 14 - Mercy Otis Warren, American playwright \n* October 27 - James Cook (+1779), British naval captain and explorer.

Deaths

\n* Marin Marais, French bass viol player and composer (born 1656) \n*François Duval, French violinist and composer (born c1673)\n* Père Gabriel Daniel, French writer and Jesuit theologian (born 1649)\n* Agostino Steffani, Italian diplomat and composer (born 1654)\n* Giovanni Maria Crescimbeni, Italian poet and critic (born 1663) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n