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A sprained ankle incurred in July 1729 left the Grand Duke bed-ridden for — barring two occasions — the rest of his life.
In 1729, Konščak left for Cádiz in Spain, then went to North America, where he was active as a missionary on New Spain's Baja California peninsula ( today part of Mexico ), from 1732 to the end of his life.
While the anonymous account in The Gentleman's Magazine says that Carey had an annuity, he left a pregnant second wife ( Sarah, whom he married between 1729 and 1733 ) and three dependent children, and both Hawkins and The London Stage say that he was despondent over financial difficulties.

1729 and England
1729 map of New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania by C. Moll with inset describing the postal system
Salisbury Township was carved out of Pequea Township in 1729 and named for Salisbury, England.
* John Williams ( minister ) ( 1664 – 1729 ), New England Puritan minister who became famous for The Redeemed Captive, his account of his captivity by the Mohawk
Dorothea Reeve was housekeeper for the second Duke of Leeds, Peregrine Osborne ( d. June 25, 1729 ), which in the social context of England at the time was a patronage plum.
Earl of Winchilsea and Earl of Nottingham are two titles in the Peerage of England held by the Finch family that have been united under a single holder since 1729.
Tryon was born 8 June 1729 at the family's seat at Norbury Park, Surrey, England the son of Charles Tryon and Lady Mary Shirley.
Baron Wharton is a title in the Peerage of England, originally granted by letters patent to the heirs male of the 1st Baron, which was forfeited in 1729 when the last male-line heir was declared an outlaw.
Edward Taylor, Leicestershire, England, 1642 – Westfield, Massachusetts, June 29, 1729 ) was a colonial American poet, pastor and physician.
Lettres philosophiques or ) is a series of essays written by Voltaire based on his experiences living in England ( though from 1707 the country was part of Great Britain ) between 1726 and 1729.
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.

1729 and for
A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burden on Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729.
She eventually received Franco-British support for this after the Congress of Soissons ( 1728 – 1729 ).
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.
Benjamin Franklin advertised pencils for sale in his Pennsylvania Gazette in 1729, and George Washington used a three-inch pencil when he surveyed the Ohio Territory in 1762.
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.
Thomas Newcomen ( 1664 – 1729 ) perfected a practical steam engine for pumping water, the Newcomen steam engine.
In 1729 his wife published his Atlas Coelestis, assisted by Joseph Crosthwait and Abraham Sharp, who were responsible for the technical side.
In 1729 he moved to Sevilla, staying for four years and gaining a knowledge of flamenco.
He was a brother of Colonel Alexander Montgomery ( 1720 – 1800 ) and a cousin of Colonel Alexander Montgomery ( 1686 – 1729 ), both Members of Parliament for County Donegal.
* S. Ramanujan, ( 1887 – 1920 ), the famous Indian mathematician, known for his work on continued fractions, number theory, and his 1729 observation
The 1729 version was the basis for several republications, often incorporating revisions, among them a widely used modernized English version of 1934, which appeared under the editorial name of Florian Cajori ( though completed and published only some years after his death ).
The Regency Act 1728 made Caroline rather than Frederick regent when her husband was in Hanover for five months from May 1729.
Spain asked for financial compensation, which led to the British demand to annul the " Visitation Right " agreed to in the Treaty of Seville ( 1729 ).
( Philologist and Rector of the Leipzig Thomasschule, Johann Matthias Gesner, for whom Bach composed a cantata in 1729, published a substantial Quintilian edition with a long footnote in Bach's honor.
The French hunters, trappers, and traders appeared first and operated along the Ouachita River valley until the Natchez Massacre of 1729, which frightened away any developers for a while.
His stately furniture designs complemented his interiors: he designed furnishings for Hampton Court Palace ( 1732 ), Lord Burlington's Chiswick House ( 1729 ), London, Thomas Coke's Holkham Hall, Norfolk, Robert Walpole's pile at Houghton, for Devonshire House in London, and at Rousham.
After completion of the villa in 1729, Burlington later provided inspiration to other architects for numerous other buildings, such as Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester at Holkham Hall, Norfolk Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, at Goodwood House, and the Mansion House, nicknamed the " Egyptian Hall " for its columns.
The Township of Derry was incorporated on August 1, 1729, when Lancaster County divided the territory for tax purposes.
The city also has several gymnasiums, the oldest of which dates to 1729, a drawing school from the 19th century, a zoological garden, a centre for the promotion of livestock breeding, and an institute for sugar beet farming.

1729 and Netherlands
In 1847 he used the table now named after him to determine the period of the sun's rotation from daily observations of temperature in the Netherlands from 1729 to 1846.

1729 and where
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 ).
Menshikov was arrested, stripped of all his honours and properties and exiled to northern Siberia, where he later died in November 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.
In 1729 he went to London where he began as a portrait painter, under the apprenticeship of an obscure artist, Thomas Wright.
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.
The visit also bore fruit in Pope's The Dunciad of 1729 ( the second edition ), where Arbuthnot probably wrote the " Virgilius restauratus " satirizing Richard Bentley.
" 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.
In 1729, he transferred the scene of his operations to an old theater at Clare Market, near Lincoln's Inn Fields, where he continued to preach " on the world as it is, serious or ridiculous.
Returning to Hamburg in 1729, he obtained the appointment of unpaid private secretary to the Danish ambassador in London, where he lived till 1731.
The first of this line to settle in Mexico was Francisco Elías González ( 1707 – 1790 ), who emigrated from La Rioja, Spain to Alamos, Sonora, Mexico, in 1729, where, as commander of the presidio of Terrenate, he played a role in the wars against the Yaqui and Apache.
* The Futurama episode " The Farnsworth Parabox " depicted a number of alternate universes, including one, Universe 1729, where everyone appears as giant rude bobbleheaded versions of themselves.
Little is known of his subsequent activities except that he finally settled in Amsterdam in 1729, where he died on 30 March 1764.
From 1729 to 1739 he participated in a series of dinners called " Le Caveau " ( named after the cabaret where they were held ) with other artists, including Alexis Piron, Charles Collé, and Charles Duclos.
After his primary education at the parish school of Laurencekirk, he studied at Marischal College, Aberdeen from where he graduated in 1729.
On 26 September a Franciscan, Father Paul ( Matthew ) Atkinson, was convicted and sent to Hurst where he remained nearly 30 years, before dying in 1729.
Johann Franz Buddeus or Budde ( sometimes Johannes Franciscus Buddeus ), German Lutheran theologian and philosopher ; born at Anklam, Swedish Pomerania, where his father was pastor, 25 June 1667 ; died at Gotha 19 November 1729.
He practiced his craft from about 1729 until his death, and his work is divided into four main periods corresponding to and named after, Piacenza, Milan, Parma and Turin, the four cities in Italy where he lived and worked.
Adam's first public building commissions were in Aberdeen, where he built the town house, or town hall, from 1729 – 30, since demolished, and Robert Gordon's Hospital from 1730 – 32, now an independent school.
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.
Count Prosper von Sinzendorf possessed inter alia the manorial Estate Trpist-Triebel in Bohemia, where he built the famous Château de Trpisty ( Schloss Trpist in German, Zámek Trpísty in Czech ) in 1729.
In that year he moved to Boston, where he painted Family of Isaac Royall ( 1741 ), a group portrait which borrows its composition from John Smibert ’ s The Bermuda Group ( 1729 ).

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