1729

1729 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1729; MDCCXXIX
Ab urbe condita	2482
Armenian calendar	1178; ԹՎ ՌՃՀԸ
Assyrian calendar	6479
Balinese saka calendar	1650–1651
Bengali calendar	1136
Berber calendar	2679
British Regnal year	2 Geo. 2 – 3 Geo. 2
Buddhist calendar	2273
Burmese calendar	1091
Byzantine calendar	7237–7238
Chinese calendar	戊申年 (Earth Monkey); 4425 or 4365; — to —; 己酉年 (Earth Rooster); 4426 or 4366
Coptic calendar	1445–1446
Discordian calendar	2895
Ethiopian calendar	1721–1722
Hebrew calendar	5489–5490
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1785–1786
- Shaka Samvat	1650–1651
- Kali Yuga	4829–4830
Holocene calendar	11729
Igbo calendar	729–730
Iranian calendar	1107–1108
Islamic calendar	1141–1142
Japanese calendar	Kyōhō 14; (享保１４年)
Javanese calendar	1653–1654
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4062
Minguo calendar	183 before ROC; 民前183年
Nanakshahi calendar	261
Thai solar calendar	2271–2272
Tibetan calendar	阳土猴年; (male Earth-Monkey); 1855 or 1474 or 702; — to —; 阴土鸡年; (female Earth-Rooster); 1856 or 1475 or 703

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century; 18th century ; 19th century;
Decades:	1700s; 1710s; 1720s; 1730s; 1740s;
Years:	1726; 1727; 1728; 1729; 1730; 1731; 1732;

1729 (MDCCXXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1729th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 729th year of the 2nd millennium, the 29th year of the 18th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1720s decade. As of the start of 1729, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

September 29: Battle of Damghan starts.

Events

January–June

March 23 (evening) – Johann Sebastian Bach's First Köthen Funeral music premieres at St. Jakob, Köthen, in honor of the funeral of his former employer Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen.
March 24 (morning) – Johann Sebastian Bach's funeral cantata Klagt, Kinder, klagt es aller Welt, BWV 244a premieres at St. Jakob, for the same event as the previous day.
April 15 – Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion, BWV 244b is performed again, at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig.

July–December

July 25 – Seven of the original eight Lords Proprietor sell their tracts within the Province of Carolina, back to the British crown. The Province is permanently divided, and reorganized into the Royal Colonies of North Carolina and South Carolina.
July 30 – Baltimore, Maryland is founded.
August 1 – The Comet of 1729, possibly the largest comet based on the absolute magnitude, on record, is discovered by Fr. Nicolas Sarrabat, a professor of mathematics at Marseille.
September 29 – October 5, Battle of Damghan: The Persians under Nader Shah Afshar defeat the Afghans and their allies.
November – The first (wooden) Putney Bridge is completed, as the only fixed crossing of the River Thames between London Bridge and Kingston, England.
November 9 – The Treaty of Seville is signed between Great Britain, France, Spain and the Dutch Republic.[1]
November 29 – Natchez revolt: The worst native american massacre to take place on Mississippi soil occurs when Natchez people kill 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie (near modern-day Natchez, Mississippi).

Date unknown

The third oldest settlement in Mississippi, Port Gibson, is founded.
A fire in Istanbul destroys 12,000 houses and kills 7,000 inhabitants.
Jonathan Swift (anonymously) publishes his satire A Modest Proposal.[2]

Births

January 12
- Lazzaro Spallanzani, Italian biologist (d. 1799)
- Edmund Burke, Irish statesman and philosopher (d. 1797)

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

January 22 – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German author and philosopher (d. 1781)

Catherine II of Russia

May 2 – Catherine the Great of Russia (Sophia Augusta Fredericka) (d. 1796)[3]
July 4 – George Leonard, American lawyer, jurist and politician (d. 1819)
August 10 – William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, British general (d. 1814)
September 6 – Moses Mendelssohn, German-Jewish philosopher (d. 1786)
October 6 – Sarah Crosby, the first female Methodist preacher (d. 1804)
November 17 – Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain, Queen consort of Sardinia (d. 1785)
November 21 – Josiah Bartlett, second signer of the American Declaration of Independence (d. 1795)
November 12 – Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French navigator and military commander (d. 1811)
November 22 – Helena Dorothea von Schönberg, German industrialist (d. 1799)
November 24 – Alexander Suvorov, Russian general (d. 1800)
date unknown
- David Barclay of Youngsbury, English merchant, businessman and banker (d. 1809)
- Samuel Barrington, British admiral (d. 1800)

Deaths

January 11 – Thomas of Cori, Italian Friar Minor and preacher (b. 1655)
January 19
- William Congreve, English playwright (b. 1670)
- Lorenzo Cozza, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1654)
January 30 – Lothar Franz von Schönborn, Archbishop of Mainz (b. 1655)
January 31 – Jacob Roggeveen, Dutch explorer (b. 1659)
February 11 – Solomon Stoddard, pastor of the Congregationalist Church in Northampton, Massachusetts (b. 1643)
February 17 – John Ernest IV, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (b. 1658)
March 2 – Francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher, scientist (b. 1662)
March 15 – Elisabeth Eleonore of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duchess consort of Saxe-Meiningen (b. 1658)
March 21 – John Law, Scottish economist (b. 1671)
March 18 – Michael Bernhard Valentini, German naturalist (b. 1657)
March 21 – Elżbieta Sieniawska politically influential Polish magnate (b. 1669)
April 12 – Louis-Guillaume Pécour, French dancer and choreographer (b. 1653)
March 6 – Sir William Lowther, 1st Baronet, of Swillington, British politician (b. 1663)
March 26 – Simon de la Loubère, French diplomat (b. 1642)
May 4 – Louis-Antoine, Cardinal de Noailles, French bishop (b. 1651)

Samuel Clarke

May 17 – Samuel Clarke, English philosopher (b. 1675)
June 4 – Sir John Delaval, 3rd Baronet, English politician (b. 1654)
June 12 – John Williams, American clergy (b. 1664)
June 27 – Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, French harpsichordist, composer (b. 1665)
July 16 – Johann David Heinichen, German composer (b. 1683)
July 30 – Thomas Tufton, 6th Earl of Thanet, British politician (b. 1644)
August 5 – Thomas Newcomen, English inventor (b. 1663)
August 31 – John Blackadder, Scottish soldier (b. 1664)
September 1 – Richard Steele, Irish writer and politician (b. 1672)
September 3 – Jean Hardouin, French scholar (b. 1646)
September 7 – William Burnet, British Governor of New York and New Jersey (b. 1688)
October 9 – Richard Blackmore, English physician and writer (b. 1654)
October 16 – Johann Heinrich Ernesti, German philosopher, theologian (b. 1652)
October 30 – William Conolly, Irish politician (b. 1662)
November 8 – Joshua Oldfield, English Presbyterian divine (b. 1656)
November 11 – John Benedict, Connecticut politician and deacon (b. 1649)
December – Doamna Marica Brâncoveanu, princess consort of Wallachia (b. 1661)
December 1 – Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (b. 1665)
December 13 – Anthony Collins, English philosopher (b. 1676)
December 22 – Michel Baron, French actor (b. 1653)
December 26 – Honoré Tournély, French theologian (b. 1658)
December 27 – Olimpia Giustiniani, Italian noblewoman (b. 1641)
date unknown – Anastasia Markovich, Ukrainian Hetmana

References

William L. R. Cates (1863). The Pocket Date Book. Chapman and Hall.
Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
"Catherine the Great | Biography, Facts, & Accomplishments". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved March 22, 2019.

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