He was a cultivated patron of literature and art, and it was in his time that the first printing press authorized to use the Arabic or Turkish languages was set up in Constantinople, operated by Ibrahim Muteferrika ( while the printing press had been introduced to Constantinople in 1480, all works published before 1729 were in Greek, Armenian, or Hebrew ).

* Italian Lazzaro Spallanzani ( 1729 – 99 ) was among early physicians to disregard Galen's theories, and in 1780 he gave experimental proof on the action of gastric juice on foodstuffs.

The first major philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment was Francis Hutcheson, who held the Chair of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow from 1729 to 1746.

James Hutton was born in Edinburgh on 3 June 1726 OS as one of five children of William Hutton, a merchant who was Edinburgh City Treasurer, but who died in 1729 when James was still young.

In 1729 a seminary was opened by Antoine Court and Benjamin Duplan.

The name " methodist " was a pejorative name given to a small society of students at Oxford who met together between 1729 and 1735 for the purpose of mutual improvement, given because of their methodistic habits.

Opium prohibition in China began in 1729 yet was followed by nearly two centuries of increasing opium use.

In Canada, the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary was founded in 1729, making it the first police force in present day Canada.

First printed in Amsterdam in 1650 it was translated to French in 1651, German in 1676, English and Dutch in 1729 and Polish in 1963.

Jacob Roggeveen ( 1659 – 1729 ), a Dutchman, was the first known European to sight the Samoan islands in 1722.

This visit was followed by French explorer Louis-Antoine de Bougainville ( 1729 – 1811 ), who named them the Navigator Islands in 1768.

This visit was followed by the French explorer Louis-Antoine de Bougainville ( 1729 – 1811 ), the man who named them the Navigator Islands in 1768.

The city was struck by two ruinous earthquakes in 1542 and 1693, and a plague in 1729.

The word " Biafra " appeared for the first time in the ancient map of Africa drawn by the Portuguese from 1492 to 1729 when it was spelt as Biafara, Biafar, and Biafares.

In 1672, Otto von Guericke ( 1602 – 1686 ), was the first human on record to knowingly generate electricity using a machine, and in 1729, Stephen Gray ( 1666 – 1736 ) demonstrated that electricity could be " transmitted " through metal filaments.

The innovative mathematician and physicist Samuel Klingenstierna ( 1698 – 1765 ) was made a professor in 1728, the physicist and astronomer Anders Celsius in 1729, and Carl Linnaeus was made professor of Medicine with Botany in 1741.

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

* August 1 – The Comet of 1729, possibly the largest comet on record, was discovered by Nicolas Sarabat.

Ganassa had performed in Paris in 1571 and 1572, and further transformations of the character occurred in France, where Arlecchino was performed at the Comédie-Italienne in Italian by Tristano Martinelli, Giovan Battista Andreini, and Angelo Costantini ( c. 1654 – 1729 ).

Shaftesbury's denial of the innate depravity of man was taken up by contemporaries such as the popular Irish essayist Richard Steele ( 1672 – 1729 ), who attributed the corruption of contemporary manners to false education.

Cohen pointed out ways in which the 18th-century terminology and punctuation of the 1729 translation might be confusing to modern readers, but he also made severe criticisms of the 1934 modernized English version, and showed that the revisions had been made without regard to the original, also demonstrating gross errors " that provided the final impetus to our decision to produce a wholly new translation ".

The Regency Act 1728 made Caroline rather than Frederick regent when her husband was in Hanover for five months from May 1729.

By July 1729 the two vessels were back at Okhotsk, where they were moored alongside the Vostok ; the party, no longer needing to carry shipbuilding materials made good time on the return journey from Okhotsk, and by 28 February 1730 Bering was back in the Russian capital.

Lazzaro Spallanzani ( 10 January 1729 – 12 February 1799 ) was an Italian Catholic priest, biologist and physiologist who made important contributions to the experimental study of bodily functions, animal reproduction, and essentially discovered animal echolocation.

During Clarke's lifetime, fearing perhaps being branded as an enemy of religion and morality, Collins made no reply, but in 1729 he published an answer, entitled Liberty and Necessity.

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:

Gaetano Apolline Baldassarre Vestris ( 18 April 1729 – 1808 ), French ballet dancer, was born in Florence and made his debut at the opera in 1749.

Turnpikes operated between 1729 and 1858 when the extensive railway network made them increasingly unpopular.

Johann Reinhold Forster ( 22 October 1729 – 9 December 1798 ) was a German Lutheran pastor and naturalist of partial Scottish descent who made contributions to the early ornithology of Europe and North America.

The following year, on 13 May 1729, he was made Chancellor and Keeper of the Great Seal to Queen Caroline, who was godmother to his son George in 1731.

A younger son, Louis Antoine de Noailles ( 1651 – 1729 ), was made archbishop of Paris in 1695, holding this high dignity until his death ; he was made a cardinal in 1699.

However, the political troubles between the Holy See and the King of Spain led to his being called back to Bologna, where he stayed until the death of Pope Clement XI. On 23 March 1729, he was made titular Patriarch of Jerusalem and was made Governor of Rome and later in 1733 he was appointed Vice-chamberlain of the Apostolic Camera.

The book Conquestas de las Islas Filipinas by Father San Agustin the Bangahon states it was already a Pueblo or town in 1729, and was made a parish by the Spanish Jesuits Missionaries with St. Michael the Archangel as Patron Saint.

In 1719 the colony was officially made a crown colony, and North Carolina was split off and made into a separate colony in 1729.

The area was again visited in 1729 by captain, José de Barroterán, who suggested a site on the San Diego river for a possible Presidio, but no attempt was made at foundation.

Both Zuccarelli and Anesi exhibited at the Accademici del Disegno on the occasion of the festival of St. Luke in Florence in 1729 .</ ref >

In 1729 Spitalfields was detached from the parish of Mile End and organized as a Civil Parish divided into two ecclesiastical subdivisions, namely ; Christchurch Spitalfields and St. Stephen's Spitalfields.

His widow, Letitia, died " of a great cold " on St Patrick's Day 1729 and was buried privately in St. Audoen's Church Dublin.

Pierre Laclède or Pierre Laclède Liguest ( Bedous, Béarn, France, 22 November 1729 – died near the mouth of Arkansas River, 20 June 1778 ) was a French fur trader who, with his young assistant and " stepson " Auguste Chouteau, founded St. Louis, Missouri, in 1764.

Some arias and choruses of the St Matthew Passion have a parody connection to the lost funeral cantata Klagt, Kinder, klagt es aller Welt, BWV 244a, composed for the memorial service for Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen ( 1729 ).

They include ( a ) ‘ Letter to the Chevalier de St. George ,’ dated 17 October 1729 ; ( b ) ‘ Remarks on a Charter of Prince Henry, son of David I ;’ ( c ) ‘ Of the Salisbury Liturgy used in Scotland .’

St George in the East is an Anglican Church and one of six Hawksmoor churches in London, England, built from 1714 to 1729, with funding from the 1711 Act of Parliament.

Near the church there is a square with the Mariensäule or Marian column erected in 1729 and four other statues of saints erected in 1735 ( St. Florian, St. Sebastian, John the Baptist and John of Nepomuk ).

In 1729 Bach returned to Köthen to direct the funeral music when the prince's embalmed body was transferred to St James church for burial.

* St George in the East — a white stone church that has dominated the area since 1729

George Parsons was born in Poole, the son of George Parsons, and was baptised at St James, Poole, 21 September 1729.

Downman is thought to have been born near Ruabon, Denbighshire, the son of Francis Downman, attorney, of St Neots, and Charlotte ( née Goodsend, eldest daughter of the private secretary to George I ); his grandfather, Hugh Downman ( 1672 – 1729 ), had been the master of the House of Ordnance at Sheerness.

" Troy ", a beautiful maze in a private garden at Troy Farm, Somerton, Oxfordshire is rather larger, and " Troy Town " maze on St Agnes, the Isles of Scilly, is a small maze of turf and small stones and is reputed to have been laid down in 1729 by the son of a local lighthouse keeper.