1729

Year 1729 (MDCCXXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1729

* July 25 - Seven of the original eight Lords Proprietors sell their tracts within the Province of Carolina back to the crown. The Province is permanently divided and reorganized into the Royal Colonies of North Carolina and South Carolina.
* July 30 - Baltimore, Maryland is founded.
* November 9 - The Treaty of Seville is signed between Great Britain, France, Spain and the Dutch Republic.
* November 28 - The worst Indian massacre to take place on Mississippi soil occurs when Natchez Indians kill 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie (near modern-day Natchez, Mississippi).

Undated

* 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 publishes "A Modest Proposal".
* Battle of Damghan: The Persians under Nadir Shah defeat the Afghans.

Births

* January 12 - Lazzaro Spallanzani, Italian biologist (d. 1799)
* January 12 - Edmund Burke, Irish statesman and philosopher (d. 1797)
* January 22 - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German author and philosopher (d. 1781)
* April 21 - Catherine the Great of Russia (d. 1796)
* August 10 - William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, British general (d. 1814)
* November 21 - Josiah Bartlett, Second Signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1795)
* November 12 - Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French navigator and military commander (d. 1811)
* November 24 - Alexander Suvorov, Russian general (d. 1800)
*"date unknown" - Samuel Barrington, British admiral (d. 1800)
*Elizabeth Woollat, wife of Jedediah Strutt (d. 1774): "See also ."

Deaths

* January 19 - William Congreve, English playwright (b. 1670)
* January 31 - Jakob Roggeveen, Dutch explorer (b. 1659)
* March 2 - Francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher and scientist (b. 1662)
* March 21 - John Law, Scottish economist (b. 1671)
* 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)
* September 7 - William Burnet, British Governor of New York and New Jersey (b. 1688)
* 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)

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