* He moved the administrative capital of the Maratha Empire from Satara to the city of Pune in 1728.

This map of the Indian Ocean and the China Sea was engraved in 1728 by the Kingdom of Hungary | Hungarian-born Ottoman Empire | Ottoman polymath and publisher Ibrahim Muteferrika ; it is one of a series that illustrated Katip Çelebi ’ s Cihannuma ( Universal Geography ), the first printed book of maps and drawings to appear in the Muslim World.

Kyakhta was founded by Serb Savva Raguzinsky as a trading point between Russia and the Qing Empire in 1728.

* " Genaue und umständliche teutsche Kayser-und Reichshistorie aus den bewährtesten Geschichtsschreibern und Urkunden zusammengetragen " in 4 volumes ( 1728 – 1743 ) ( Exact and Comprehensive History of the German Emperor and Empire compiled from the Most Valued Historians and Documents )

Ferdinando Galiani ( 2 December 1728, Chieti, Kingdom of Naples – 30 October 1787, Naples, Kingdom of Naples ) was an Italian economist, a leading Italian figure of the Enlightenment.

He published, during the controversy about whether Scotland was bound by the Act of Settlement 1701 or not, An Historical Essay showing that the Crown and Kingdom of Scotland is Imperial and Independent ( Edinburgh, 1705 ), and later Collections relating to the History of Mary Queen of Scotland ( in 4 vols, Edin., 1727 – 1728 ), both of which were later used extensively by his great-nephew, the historian William Robertson

Sir Henry Gough, 1st Baronet, Member of Parliament, ( 1709 – 1774 ) was made a baronet in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom in 1728.

General Wade reported in 1728 that the castle's defences were decayed and inadequate, and major refortifications were carried out throughout the 1720s and 1730s, when most of the artillery defences and bastions on the north and west sides of the castle were built.

John Stark ( August 28, 1728 – May 8, 1822 ) was a New Hampshire native who served as a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolution.

He entered service in 1706, became major in Beauce's regiment in Toul in 1728, later in 1739 lieutenant-colonel.

In 1728, the Carbognano branch ( Colonna di Sciarra ) of the Colonna family added the name Barberini to its family name when Giulio Cesare Colonna di Sciarra married Cornelia Barberini, daughter of the last male Barberini to hold the name and grand-daughter of Maffeo Barberini ( son of Taddeo Barberini ).

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 ".

After Newton's death in 1727, the relatively accessible character of its writing encouraged the publication of an English translation in 1728 ( by persons still unknown, not authorised by Newton's heirs ).

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.

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.

After the break-up of Handel's Royal Academy in 1728, Senesino sang in Paris ( 1728 ) and Venice ( 1729 ), but was re-engaged by Handel in 1730, singing in four more new operas and in the oratorios Esther, Deborah, and, in its 1732 bilingual version, Acis and Galatea.

Next, Mombasa returned to Portuguese rule by captain-major Álvaro Caetano de Melo Castro ( 12 March 1728 – 21 September 1729 ), then four new Omani Liwali until 1746, when the last of them made it independent again ( disputed by Oman ), as the first of its recorded Sultans:

In New York City, Shearith Israel Congregation is the oldest continuous congregation started in 1687 having their first synagogue erected in 1728, and its current building still houses some of the original pieces of that first.

The Grand Lodge of France dates its foundation to 1728, when it claims the Grand Master was the Duke of Wharton.

Originally known as Coccles Town ( sometimes misreckoned as Cuckolds Town ) because of the abundance of oyster and clam shells found in the waters of the nearby Fresh Kills, Richmondtown gained its present name in 1728 when the village now preserved as Historic Richmond Town was founded.

A Royal Charter was granted to Neston in 1728 in support of its status as a market town.

Giardini oversaw the actual construction from 1722 until his death in 1724, after which Jacques Gabriel took over, assisted by L ' Assurance and other designers, until its completion in 1728.

By 1836 an ornamental iron fence fully enclosed the Common and its five perimeter malls or recreational promenades, the first of which, Tremont Mall, had been in place since 1728, in imitation of St. James's Park in London.

A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life ( 1728 ), together with its predecessor, A Practical Treatise Upon Christian Perfection ( 1726 ), deeply influenced the chief actors in the great Evangelical revival.

The inventor, Denbei Shoami ( 1651 – 1728 ), initially called his product guri bori for its simplest form's resemblance to guri, a type of carved lacquerwork with alternating layers of red and black.

However in a dramatic case in 1728 the jury asserted " its ancient right " to bring in a " not guilty " verdict even when the facts of the case were proven ( see jury nullification ).

In a notable trial in 1728, a defence lawyer ( Robert Dundas ) persuaded a jury to reassert its ancient right of acquitting, of finding a defendant " not guilty ", in spite of the facts being proven.

They include: Letters from a Lady of Quality ( translation of Edme Boursault's play ) ( 1721 ); La Belle Assemblée ( 1724 ) ( translation of Madame de Gomez ’ s novella ); The Lady ’ s Philosopher's Stone ( 1723 ) ( translation of Louis Adrien Duperron de Castera ’ s historical novel ); Love in its Variety ( 1727 ) ( translation of Matteo Bandello ’ s stories ); The Disguis'd Prince ( 1728 ) ( translation of Madame de Villedieu ’ s 1679 novel ); The Virtuous Villager ( 1742 ) ( translation of Charles de Fieux's work ); and ( with William Hatchett ) The Sopha ( 1743 ) ( translation of Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon's novel ).

Pope first published The Dunciad in 1728 in three books, with Lewis Theobald as its " hero.

But its chief literary glory was Isaak Iselin ( 1728 – 1782 ), one of the founders of the Helvetic Society ( 1760 ) and of the Economical Society ( 1777 ).

In 1728, the date of 25 May was assigned instead to Pope Gregory VII, and the feast day of Saint Mary Magdalene of Pazzi was moved to 29 May, where it remained until 1969, when it was restored to its traditional place in the calendar.

Built in 1700 by wool merchant Richard Gough ( d. 1728 ) it is a rare example of a house of its era which survives in the City of London ( note that this refers only to the " Square Mile ", as there are many other houses of this period elsewhere in Greater London ) and is the only one of Johnson's 18 residences in the City to survive.

He served as its lieutenant governor for fourteen years ( 1716 – 1730 ), including an extended period from 1723 to 1728 when acted as governor.

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.

A Specimen of typeset font s and language s, by William Caslon, letter founder ; from the 1728 Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences | Cyclopaedia.

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

* 1728 – Joseph Black, Scottish chemist ( d. 1799 )

* 1728 – John Stark, American general ( d. 1822 )

* 1728 – Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony ( d. 1797 )

Isaac Newton's 1728 The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended studies a variety of mythological links to Atlantis.

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.

In 1728 he was elected into the French Academy of Sciences, and two years later into the Royal Society of London.

Painting based on The Beggar's Opera, Act III Scene 2, William Hogarth, c. 1728

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.

The Ray, 1728, Musée du Louvre, Paris.

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

Cotton Mather, FRS ( February 12, 1663 – February 13, 1728 ; A. B.

Biblia Americana is incredibly large and Mather worked on it from 1693 – 1728, when he died.

* 1728 – Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi, Italian composer ( d. 1804 )

DECT operates in the 1880 – 1900 MHz band and defines ten channels from 1881. 792 MHz to 1897. 344 MHz with a band gap of 1728 kHz.

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.

However, Chambers ' Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ( 1728 ), and the Encyclopédie of Diderot and D ' Alembert ( 1751 onwards ), as well as Encyclopædia Britannica and the Conversations-Lexikon, were the first to realize the form we would recognize today, with a comprehensive scope of topics, discussed in depth and organized in an accessible, systematic method.

Ephraim Chambers published his Cyclopaedia in 1728.