They were organized around the year 1729 to fill out the army and make it look larger in battle, armed only with banners. Dahomey female soldiers The women reportedly behaved so courageously they became a permanent corps.

Fueled in part by the 1729 ban on madak, which at first effectively exempted pure opium as a potentially medicinal product, the smoking of pure opium became more popular in the eighteenth century.

Both colonies became royal colonies in 1729.

Krystyna Skowrońska, renamed Christina Samuilovna Skavronskaya ( 1687 – 14 April 1729 ), had married Simon-Heinrich N ( 1672 – 1728 ) and their descendants became the Counts Guendrikov.

Lancaster County was part of Chester County, Pennsylvania until May 10, 1729, when it became the fourth county in the state.

Originally part of Lancaster County ( 1729 ), then Cumberland County ( 1750 ), Franklin County became an independent jurisdiction on September 9, 1784, named in honor of Founding Father Benjamin Franklin.

On 20 May 1729, a waterspout came ashore, became a tornado, and travelled inland to Battle and Linkhill ; nine farms and properties received serious damage.

In 1729 he became vicar of Northallerton, in the county of York.

* John Williams ( minister ) ( 1664 – 1729 ), New England Puritan minister who became famous for The Redeemed Captive, his account of his captivity by the Mohawk

In 1715 he became librarian and vice-principal at Weimar, where he became good friends with Johann Sebastian Bach ( Bach later dedicated his Canon a 2 perpetuus BWV 1075 to Gesner ), in 1729 ( having been dismissed as librarian at Weimar ) rector of the gymnasium at Ansbach, and in 1730 rector of the Thomasschule at Leipzig.

In 1724 he was appointed to deliver the Tuesday evening lecture in the Presbyterian chapel, Old Jewry, London, and in 1729 he became assistant minister to the Presbyterian congregation in Crutched Friars.

On 22 January 1729 he became Commander of Stettin, after having been chosen there on 24 May 1725 as a knight of Order of the Black Eagle.

He never married and on his death in 1729 the barony of FitzHerbert of Eastwell became extinct.

He succeeded to the Earldom of Winchilsea ( with which the Nottingham title now became united ) on 9 September 1729, and died on 1 January 1730.

He also became the next in line to the throne of France until the birth of Louis XV's first-born son in 1729.

* Nicholas Brown I ( 1729 – 1791 ), American signer of the 1764 charter of what became Brown University

Next door to the church is a house built in 1729 which later became the vicarage ; the front door has stonework from the nearby, demolished manor house of the 16th century including the de Longueville family coat of arms, and pieces from the earlier church building.

But by the time Robert Johnson became Royal Governor in 1729, it fit very nicely with his needs and instructions.

In 1729 he published Essai d ' optique sur la gradation de la lumière, the object of which is to define the quantity of light lost by passing through a given extent of the atmosphere, and became the first known discoverer of what is now more commonly known as the Beer-Lambert law.

After nearly a decade in which the British government sought to locate and buy out the proprietors, both North and South Carolina became royal colonies in 1729.

After nearly a decade in which the British government sought to locate and buy out the proprietors, North and South Carolina both became royal colonies in America, in 1729.

In 1729, after nearly a decade-long attempt by the British government to locate and buy out seven of the eight Lords Proprietors, both Carolinas became royal colonies.

After nearly a decade in which the British government sought to locate and buy out the proprietors, both North and South Carolina became royal colonies in 1729.

Another well-known citizen of Middelburg was the Admiral and explorer, Jacob Roggeveen, who was born in the city in 1659, and died there in 1729.

Rear Admiral Samuel Barrington, RN ( 1729 – 1800 ) was a British admiral.

Some of the 1729 coins bear the initials EIC under the king's head, indicating the gold was supplied by the East India Company, while the 1746 coins have LIMA under the head, indicating the gold was obtained during Admiral Anson's circumnavigation of the world ( though the use of LIMA is something of a mystery, as there is no known connection with Peru ).

Some coins issued between 1729 and 1739 carry the mark EIC under the king's head, to indicate the gold was provided by the East India Company, while some 1745 coins carry the mark LIMA to indicate the gold came from Admiral George Anson's round-the-world voyage.

Some coins issued between 1729 and 1739 carry the mark EIC under the king's head, to indicate the gold was provided by the East India Company, while some 1745 coins carry the mark LIMA to indicate the gold came from Admiral Anson's round-the-world voyage.

Many of the monuments from later centuries commemorate notable residents of Beckett Hall, including John Wildman ( c. 1621 – 93 ), Rothesia Ann Barrington ( died 1745 ; monument sculpted by Thomas Paty ), John Barrington, 1st Viscount Barrington ( 1678 – 1734 ), William Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington ( 1717 – 93 ; monument designed by James Wyatt and sculpted by Richard Westmacott ) and Rear Admiral Samuel Barrington ( 1729 – 1800 ; monument sculpted by John Flaxman ).

Kanhoji Angre () or Conajee Angria or Sarkhel Angre ( Sarkhel is a title meaning Admiral of the Fleet ) ( August 1669 – 4 July 1729 ) was the first notable chief of the Maratha Navy in 18th century India.

Outside the Peerage of Scotland, another Earldom of Darnley was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1729.

Image: WLA lacma Smibert Scotland portrait of Paul Mascarene. jpg | Portrait of Major General Paul Mascarene, 1729 ( LACMA )

He was the author of two learned works, Critical Essay on the Ancient Inhabitants of the Northern Parts of Britain ( 1729 ), and Civil and Ecclesiastical History of Scotland, 80 to 818 ( published 1853 ).

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 .’

In 1729 Alasdair was appointed to a school at Finnan Island as a teacher by the Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge, and was the catechist of the same parish under the Royal Bounty Committee of the Church of Scotland.

in Scotland reveal of the Anti-Catholic, Anti-Jacobite, and Anti-Gaelic policy and activities of that body, Alexander MacDonald's employment in its service as a schoolmaster from 1729 to 1745 must be considered as totally inconsistent with his natural loyalties as a member of the Clanranald branch of the MacDonalds ; and one can only feel that in his young days something must have gone wrong with his career to account for this.

* La Nouvelle Colonie ( 1729 ), lost and then rewritten in 1750 with the title of La Colonie

" In 1729 he took Holy Orders, and, went on to hold two livings in Lincolnshire, including that of the parish of All Saints, Stamford, Lincolnshire, where he did a considerable amount of further research, not least on the town's lost Eleanor Cross.

Egede's book The Old Greenland's New Perlustration () appeared in 1729 and was translated into several languages, but King Frederick had lost patience and recalled Paarss's military garrison from Greenland the next year.

* Aleksandr Suvorov ( 1729 – 1800 ), Russian Generalissimo, reckoned one of a few great generals in history who never lost a battle

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 ).