1728 in Great Britain
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| Sport |
| 1728 English cricket season |
Events from the year 1728 in Great Britain.
Incumbents
- Monarch - George II
- Prime Minister - Robert Walpole (Whig)
Events
- 29 January - First performance of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera.[1]
- March - Spain ends its siege of Gibraltar.[2]
- 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.[3]
- James Bradley observes nutation of the Earth's axis.[3]
- 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.[4]
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]
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 historian (born 1662)
- August – Colonel John Stewart, former Member of Parliament for the Kirkcudbright Stewartry, killed by Sir Gilbert Eliott, 3rd Baronet, of Stobs.
