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.

Bradley eventually developed the explanation of aberration in about September 1728 and his theory was presented to the Royal Society in mid January the next year.

The first, most important and successful was The Beggar's Opera of 1728, with a libretto by John Gay and music arranged by John Christopher Pepusch, both of whom probably influenced by Parisian vaudeville and the burlesques and musical plays of Thomas D ' Urfey ( 1653 – 1723 ), a number of whose collected ballads they used in their work.

Later on, he was a tutor to the later Tsar Peter II in 1728.

Upon presentation of The Ray in 1728, he was admitted to the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture.

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.

He met the influential early neoclassical painter Raphael Mengs ( 1728 – 1779 ), and through Mengs was introduced to the pathbreaking theories of art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann ( 1717 – 1768 ).

Chambers, in 1728, followed the earlier lead of John Harris's Lexicon Technicum of 1704 and later editions ( see also below ); this work was by its title and content " A Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Explaining not only the Terms of Art, but the Arts Themselves ".

In part, it was conceived in reaction to the French Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d ' Alembert ( published 1751 – 1772 ), which had been inspired by Chambers's Cyclopaedia ( first edition 1728 ).

This collection was reprinted, revised, and enlarged many times, with a final edition published sometime around 1728.

Between 1713 and 1728, there were seven occasions when British ministers was prepared to bargain Gibraltar away as part of his foreign policy.

Except for an abortive royal colony established under Major Claus Paarss between 1728 and 1730, colonial Greenland was administered by companies under royal charter until 1908.

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

Peter I was succeeded by his second wife ( Catherine I, 1725 – 1728 ) who was merely a figure-head for a powerful group of high officials, then by his minor grandson ( Peter II, 1728 – 1730 ), then by his niece, Anna, daughter of Tsar Ivan V. In 1741 Elizabeth, daughter of Peter, seized the throne, assisted by the Preobrazhensky Regiment.

Hammurabi ( Akkadian from Amorite ʻAmmurāpi, " the kinsman is a healer ", from ʻAmmu, " paternal kinsman ", and Rāpi, " healer "; ( died c. 1750 BC ) was the sixth king of Babylon ( that is, of the First Babylonian Dynasty ) from 1792 BC to 1750 BC middle chronology ( 1728 BC – 1686 BC short chronology ).

The Copenhagen manuscript was among the many valuables destroyed in the Copenhagen Fire of 1728.

Captain James Cook, FRS, RN ( 7 November 1728 – 14 February 1779 ) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy.

It is not often recognized that in his earlier work on the " Sea clocks " Harrison was continually assisted both financially and in many other ways by George Graham, the watchmaker and instrument maker who lent him a large sum on the basis of trust even after Harrison's first visit to Graham in 1728 to explain how his timekeeper worked.

If an object ’ s weight was equivalent to 1728 carob seeds, then the object was said to weigh one Roman pound.

The ratio of a Roman ounce ( 144 carob seeds ) to a Roman pound ( 1728 carob seeds ) was:

He was created Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme on 10 May 1728 and was elected Pope in 1740.

On 23 January 1728, Onslow was unanimously elected Speaker of the House of Commons, a post which had been held by his uncle Sir Richard Onslow, Bt and his ancestor Richard Onslow.

His total staff during the 1730s numbered 7, as his first three apprentices were free by 1728, and two of his apprentices, Verren and Smith, died soon into their apprenticeship.

Between June 1728 and July 1729 it hosted the Congress of Soissons an attempt to resolve a long-standing series of disputes between Great Britain and Spain which had spilled over into the Anglo-Spanish War of 1727.

Charles Eugene ( 1728 – 1793 ), who came of age in 1744, appeared gifted, but vicious and extravagant, and he soon fell into the hands of unworthy favourites.

However, the singer also possessed an extraordinarily extensive low range: " Navigante che non spera " in Leonardo Vinci's opera Il Medo ( 1728 ) takes him into what might well be described as the alien territory of C3, where a tenor would be more " at home ".

He began as a soldier and worked his way up into the civil service of the company and lived in Bombay from 1728 to 1740.

Longman entered into partnership with his father-in-law, Osborn, who held one-sixth of the shares in Ephraim Chambers's Cyclopaedia ( 1728 ).

He was received into the Congregation of the Rosary at Formiello in 1728.

Further work was carried out in August 1728 ( Kyōhō 13 ) on the shingled roof of the Honmaru Palace, remodeling it into a lightweight, informal roof.

The Qing had made the region of Amdo and Kham into the province of Qinghai in 1724, and incorporated eastern Kham into neighbouring Chinese provinces in 1728.

Savage, impostor or not, blackmailed Mrs Brett and her family with some success, for after the publication of The Bastard ( 1728 ) her nephew, John Brownlow, 1st Viscount Tyrconnel, bought his silence by taking him into his house and allowing him a pension of £ 200 a year.

The original state was founded in the first half of the 18th century by the brothers Tukaji Rao ( senior ) and Jivaji Rao ( junior ), from the Pawar clan of Marathas, who advanced into Malwa with the Maratha Peshwa, Baji Rao, in 1728.

At that time elections were held only on the start of a new reign, and so the Act followed the death of George I in 1727 and came into practical effect from 1728.

The opening of the western route through Mongolia, by Urga, and the establishment of a custom-house at Kyakhta in 1728 diverted this trade into a new channel.

Until 1728 Tulchin was part of the estates of the Polish magnates of the Kalinowski family ( other distinguished members of Tulchin family were Adam Kalinowski and Marcin Kalinowski ), and then passed into the hands of Stanisław Potocki bypassing other Kalinowskis ' branch, then in 1734 to Franciszek Salezy Potocki and his son Stanisław Szczęsny Potocki, who was the most memorable and infamous member of the Tulczyn branch of the Potocki family.

In 1728 he reintroduced into Scottish juries the possible verdicts of guilty or not guilty as against proven or not proven.

Alne Mill, conveted into luxuary apartments in 1989, lies about to the south of the village and the road leading down to it is probably the Milnewey or Millway mentioned in 1541 and 1728.

The opera fell into neglect after the 1728 closing of the Royal Academy.

* 1669 – Anne Marie d ' Orléans, French wife of Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia ( d. 1728 )

* 1799 – Étienne-Louis Boullée, French architect ( b. 1728 )

* February 6 – Étienne-Louis Boullée, a French architect ( b. 1728 )

* February 8 – Gabriel Daniel, French Jesuit historian ( d. 1728 )

* May 31 – Marin Marais, French composer and viol player ( d. 1728 )

Étienne-Louis Boullée ( February 12, 1728 – February 4, 1799 ) was a visionary French neoclassical architect whose work greatly influenced contemporary architects and is still influential today.

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.

The Encyclopédie was originally conceived as a French translation of Ephraim Chambers's Cyclopaedia ( 1728 ).

From 1728 to 1738 it was distracted by violent disputes about the distribution of the French pensions.

Competent in Latin, French and Italian, he translated Andrea Pozzo's treatise on perspective as Rules and Examples of Perspective, proper for Painters and Architects ( 1707, 2nd edition c. 1725 ) and from the French of Claude Perrault, A Treatise of the Five Orders of Columns in Architecture ( 1708 ), and from the French of Dezallier d ' Argenville, The Theory and Practice of Gardening ( 1712, 2nd edition 1728, 3rd edition 1743.

Camille d ' Hostun de la Baume, duc de Tallard ( 14 February 1652 – 20 March 1728 ) was a French noble, diplomat and military commander, who became Marshal of France.

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.

Marin Marais ( 31 May 1656, Paris15 August 1728, Paris ) was a French composer and viol player.

In 1728, French dentist Pierre Fauchard, who took modernized orthodontics, published a book entitled " The Surgeon Dentist " on methods of straightening teeth.

:: This value is used in the conversions below ; also note 12 × 12 = 12 < sup > 2 </ sup >= 144 — a dozen-dozen, and 12 < sup >( French inches )</ sup > × 144 = 1728 used below or 12 < sup > 3 </ sup >.

To Truchent, a point was defined the other way, there were a dozen-dozen points per French inch — or 1728 or 12 < sup > 3 </ sup > points to a French-Foot.

Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d ' Éon de Beaumont ( 5 October 1728 Tonnerre – 21 May 1810 London ), usually known as the Chevalier d ' Éon, was a French diplomat, spy, soldier and Freemason whose first 49 years were spent as a man, and whose last 33 years were spent as a woman.

This period of French rule lasted four years, because, in 1728, it reverted to the control of Mauritanian tribal chiefs.

He left France in 1728, having carried off the French Academy's grand prix, which carried scholarship for study in Rome.

There are many editions of the Life of the Archbishop, and it appeared in French ( Paris, 1663, 1679 and 1825 ), in Italian ( 1727 – 1728 ), in Spanish ( Madrid, 1645 and 1727 ) and in English ( London, 1890 ).

Gabriel Daniel ( February 8, 1649 – June 23, 1728 ), French Jesuit historian, was born in Rouen.