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HOW IT WORKS
1728 in Great Britain
Summary
Events from the year
1728
in
Great Britain
.
1728 in Great Britain:
Other years
1726
|
1727
|
1728
|
1729
|
1730
Countries of the United Kingdom
Scotland
Sport
1728 English cricket season
Incumbents
edit
Monarch
–
George II
Prime Minister
–
Robert Walpole
(
Whig
)
[1]
Events
edit
10 January –
The Provoked Husband
a comedy based on an unfinished
John Vanbrugh
play completed by
Colley Cibber
premiers at the
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
. It appears to be the hit of the theatre season until eclipsed by
The Beggars Opera
a few weeks later.
29 January – The first performance of
John Gay
's
The Beggar's Opera
at the
Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre
.
[2]
A major success it leads to a theatre boom and is followed by a number of other
ballad operas
imitating its style.
March –
Spain
ends its siege of
Gibraltar
.
[3]
31 May –
The Royal Bank of Scotland
extends the first
overdraft
(to Edinburgh merchant William Hogg for £1,000).
[4]
14 June –
Congress of Soissons
begins in an effort to end the
Anglo-Spanish War
.
Late Summer –
Voltaire
ends his exile in England.
September –
astronomer
James Bradley
uses stellar
aberration
(first observed in 1725) to calculate the
speed of light
.
[5]
James Bradley observes
nutation of the Earth's axis
.
[5]
The King's son
Frederick, Prince of Wales
, arrives in Britain for the first time, aged 21. He has previously lived in
Hanover
as the
House of Hanover
's principal resident there since the
Hanoverian Succession
to the British throne in 1714.
Probable date at which the
brown rat
first enters Britain.
[6]
Publications
edit
Ephraim Chambers
'
Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences
.
[3]
James Gibbs
'
A Book of Architecture, containing designs of buildings and ornaments
.
Alexander Pope
's satirical poem
The Dunciad
.
[3]
Daniel Defoe
's
A Plan of the English Commerce
.
Births
edit
9 January –
Thomas Warton
, poet (died 1790)
3 July –
Robert Adam
, architect (died 1792)
3 September –
Matthew Boulton
, manufacturer and engineer (died 1809)
27 October (
O.S.
) –
James Cook
, naval captain and explorer (died 1779)
Deaths
edit
3 April –
James Anderson
, Scottish lawyer, antiquary and historian (born 1662)
See also
edit
1728 in Wales
References
edit
^
"History of Sir Robert Walpole - GOV.UK".
www.gov.uk
. Retrieved
12 June
2023
.
^
Penguin Pocket On This Day
. Penguin Reference Library. 2006.
ISBN
0-14-102715-0
.
^
a
b
c
Williams, Hywel (2005).
Cassell's Chronology of World History
. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
ISBN
0-304-35730-8
.
^
"The history of payments in the UK".
BBC News
. 2009-02-16
. Retrieved
2016-02-25
.
^
a
b
Delambre, J. B.
(1827).
Histoire de l'astronomie au dix-huitième siècle
. Paris: Bachelier.
^
Berkenhout, John
(1769).
Outlines of the Natural History of Great Britain
.