1729 - All About All

1729

This article is about the year. For other uses, see 1729 (number).

Events

• July 30 - Baltimore, Maryland is founded.
• November 28 - The worst Indian massacre to take place on Mississippi soil occurred. In this attack, the Natchez Indians killed 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, MS (near modern-day Natchez, MS).
• First printing press was established in Ottoman Empire (app. 300 years after it was first used in western civilization) by Ibrahim Muteferrika.
• Astronomer James Bradley discovers and describes the prinicple of aberration of starlight.
• The third oldest settlement in Mississippi, Port Gibson, was founded

Births

• January 12 - Edmund Burke, Irish statesman and philosopher (d. 1797)
• January 22 - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German author and philosopher (d. 1781)
• May 2 - Catherine the Great of Russia (d. 1796)
• November 24 - Alexander Suvorov, Russian general (d. 1800)

Deaths

• January 19 - William Congreve, English playwright (b. 1670)
• January 31 - Jakob Roggeveen, Dutch explorer (b. 1659)
• March 2 - Francesco Bianchini, Italain philosopher and scientist (b. 1662)
• March 21 - John Law, Scottish economist (b. 1671)
• May 17 - Catherine I of Russia
• May 17 - Samuel Clarke, English philosopher (b. 1675)
• July 16 - Johann David Heinichen, German composer (b. 1683)
• August 5 - Thomas Newcomen, English inventor (b. 1663)
• September 3 - Jean Hardouin, French scholar (b. 1646)
• October 9 - Richard Blackmore, English physician and writer (b. 1654)
• December 1 - Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (b. 1665)
• December 13 - Anthony Collins, English philosopher (b. 1676)