1728 in Great Britain
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Events from the year 1728 in Great Britain.
Incumbents
- Monarch – George II
- Prime Minister – Robert Walpole (Whig)
- Parliament – 7th
Events
- 29 January – first performance of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera.[1]
- March – Spain ends its siege of Gibraltar.[2]
- 31 May – The Royal Bank of Scotland extends the first overdraft (to Edinburgh merchant William Hogg for £1,000).[3]
- Late Summer – Voltaire ends his exile in England.
- September – astronomer James Bradley uses stellar aberration (first observed in 1725) to calculate the speed of light.[4]
- James Bradley observes nutation of the Earth's axis.[4]
- The King's son Frederick, Prince of Wales, arrives in Britain for the first time, aged 21.
- Probable date at which the brown rat first enters Britain.[5]
Publications
- Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences.[2]
- James Gibbs' A Book of Architecture, containing designs of buildings and ornaments.
- Alexander Pope's The Dunciad.[2]
- Daniel Defoe's A Plan of the English Commerce
Births
- 9 January – Thomas Warton, poet (died 1790)
- 3 July – Robert Adam, architect (died 1792)
- 3 September – Matthew Boulton, manufacturer and engineer (died 1809)
- 27 October (O.S.) – James Cook, naval captain and explorer (died 1779)
Deaths
- 3 April – James Anderson, Scottish lawyer, antiquary and historian (born 1662)
References
- Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- "The history of payments in the UK". BBC News. 2009-02-16. Retrieved 2016-02-25.
- Delambre, J. B. (1827). Histoire de l'astronomie au dix-huitième siècle. Paris: Bachelier.
- Berkenhout, John (1769). Outlines of the Natural History of Great Britain.
See also
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