The first schism from the general body of German Baptist Brethren occurred in 1728, but more followed after the American Revolution, as different groups sought their own ways.

* February 12 – Cotton Mather, American minister ( d. 1728 )

* José Moñino, conde de Floridablanca ( 1728 – 1808 ), statesman, minister of King Charles III of Spain

It is not known when the game of Liubo originated, although according to legend it was invented by Wu Cao ( 烏曹, called Wu Zhou 烏胄 in the early 2nd century CE Shuowen Jiezi dictionary ), a minister to King Jie, the last king of the Xia Dynasty, who according to traditional chronology reigned 1728 BCE – 1675 BCE.

* February 12-Cotton Mather, New England Puritan minister, prolific author and pamphleteer ( died 1728 )

* Phillips Payson ( 1704 – 1778 ), American minister for the town of Dorchester, Massachusetts from 1728

They have an ancestry extending back, however, at least to 1728, when William Byrd described the Lubberlanders he encountered in the back country of Virginia and North Carolina.

It has also been argued that A Modest Proposal was, at least in part, a response to the 1728 essay The Generous Projector or, A Friendly Proposal to Prevent Murder and Other Enormous Abuses, By Erecting an Hospital for Foundlings and Bastard Children by Swift's rival Daniel Defoe.

1728 illustration of the Ark at the erection of the Tabernacle and the sacred vessels, as in Exodus 40: 17-19

Distance education dates to at least as early as 1728, when " an advertisement in the Boston Gazette ... ' Caleb Phillips, Teacher of the new method of Short Hand " was seeking students for lessons to be sent weekly.

Born in 1728, Floridablanca was eighty years of age at the time of the revolutionary outbreak in 1808.

Between 1725 and 1728 John and his brother James, also a skilled joiner, made at least three precision pendulum-clocks, again with oak and lignum vitae movements and longcase.

In the 1728 version of the poem, the goddess Dulness notes that " Time himself stands still at her command ,/ Realms shift their place, and Ocean turns to land " ( Dunciad 1728, i, 69 – 70 ).

Bernadotte was born in Pau, France, as the son of Jean Henri Bernadotte ( Pau, Béarn, 14 October 1711 – Pau, 31 March 1780 ), procurator at Pau, and wife ( married at Boëil-Bezing, 20 February 1754 ) Jeanne de Saint-Vincent ( Pau, 1 April 1728 – Pau, 8 January 1809 ).

* Agostino Steffani ( 1653 – 1728 ) was Kapellmeister from 1688 to 1698 at the court of Hanover.

Bolívar's grandfather, Juan de Bolívar y Martínez de Villegas, paid 22, 000 ducats to the monastery at Santa Maria de Montserrat in 1728 for a title of nobility that had been granted by the king, Philip V of Spain, for its maintenance.

Berkenhout gave the brown rat the binomial name Rattus norvegicus, believing it had migrated to England from Norwegian ships in 1728, although no brown rat had entered Norway at that time.

As a consequence, the ship they constructed ( named the Archangel Gabriel ) was ready to be launched as soon as 9 June 1728 from its construction point upriver at Ushka.

Marivaux wrote between 30 and 40 plays, the best of which are the Surprise de l ' amour ( 1722 ), the Triomphe de Plutus ( 1728 ), Jeu de l ' amour et du hasard ( 1730 ) ( The Game of Love and Chance ), Les Fausses confidences ( 1737 ), all produced at the Italian theatre, and Le Legs ( 1736 ), produced at the French.

Among his efforts in oil between 1728 and 1732 were The Fountaine Family ( c. 1730 ), The Assembly at Wanstead House, The House of Commons examining Bambridge, and several pictures of the chief actors in John Gay's popular The Beggar's Opera.

Hogarth was initiated as a Freemason some time before 1728 in the Lodge at the Hand and Apple Tree Tavern, Little Queen Street, and later belonged to the Carrier Stone Lodge and the Grand Stewards ' Lodge ; the latter still possesses the ' Hogarth Jewel ' which Hogarth designed for the Lodge's Master to wear.

Historian Ed Kirby tells us that traces of iron were discovered in what was to become Salisbury in 1728, with the discovery of the large deposit at Old Hill ( later Ore Hill ) in 1731 by John Pell and Ezekiel Ashley.

Adam was born on the 3 July 1728 at Gladney House in Kirkcaldy, Fife, although the family moved to Edinburgh later that same year.

First granted in 1728, the town was known as " Lovewell's Town ", in honor of Captain John Lovewell, who built the stockade at Ossipee.

He died on 24 March 1728 and is entombed at St. Mary ’ s Syrian Orthodox Church, Kandanadu.

Bridge over the New Canal at Holborn, 1728.

In the late 17th to early 18th centuries, several more towns were established and added to Hartford County: Waterbury in 1686 ( transferred to New Haven County in 1728 ), Windham in 1694 ( transferred to Windham County in 1726 ), Hebron in 1708 ( transferred to Tolland County in 1785 ), Coventry in 1712 ( transferred to Windham County in 1726 ), and Litchfield in 1722 ( transferred to Litchfield County in 1751 ).

Waterbury was later transferred to New Haven County in 1728.

Goochland was founded in 1728 as the first county formed from Henrico shire, followed by Chesterfield County in 1749.

The first court in Goochland County was held in May 1728.

Caroline County was established in the British Colony of Virginia in 1728 from Essex, King and Queen, and King William counties.

Craig's Scotch-Irish Settlement was established in 1728, and is the oldest settlement in Northampton County along the Catasauqua Creek.

HIstoric marker for William Byrd's Camp on his expedition to survey the Dividing Line, Henry County, Virginia, 1728

Approximately three miles south of Ridgeway in Henry County on U. S. Route 220 is a Virginia State historic marker noting the passing of the surveying party of William Byrd II, who moved through the area in 1728 on his expedition to survey the dividing line between Virginia and North Carolina.

Caesar Rodney ( October 7, 1728 – June 26, 1784 ) was an American lawyer and politician from St. Jones Neck in Dover Hundred, Kent County, Delaware, east of Dover.

Caesar Rodney was born in 1728 on his family's farm, " Byfield ", on St. Jones Neck in East Dover Hundred, Kent County, Delaware.

In 1728 he was raised to the Peerage of Great Britain as Baron Lovel, of Minster Lovel in the County of Oxford, and in 1744 he was created Viscount Coke, of Holkham in the County of Norfolk, and Earl of Leicester, also in the Peerage of Great Britain.

In 1728 he was raised to the Peerage of Great Britain as Baron Hobart, of Blickling in the County of Norfolk, and in 1746 he was further honoured when he was made Earl of Buckinghamshire, also in the Peerage of Great Britain.

Born Richard Colley, he inherited the Dangan and Mornington estates in County Meath on the death of his first cousin Garret Wesley in 1728 and assumed the same year by Royal license the surname of Wesley in lieu of his patronymic ( see below for earlier history of the family ).

In 1728 he was raised to the Peerage of Great Britain as Baron Monson, of Burton in the County of Lincoln.

His younger brother Arthur French ( 1728 – 1799 ), member of the Irish Parliament for County Roscommon, refused the offer of the peerage originally intended for his brother.

HIstoric marker for William Byrd's Camp on his expedition to survey the Dividing Line, Henry County, Virginia, 1728

Richard Cassels, who originally trained as an engineer, came to Ireland in 1728 at the behest of Sir Gustavus Hume of County Fermanagh to design for Hume a mansion on the shores of Lough Erne.

In 1728, Richmond's Sussex played twice against Edward Stead's Kent and lost both matches, with Kent effectively claiming the Champion County title as "( its ) men have been too expert for those of Sussex ".