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This article is about the year 1728. For the number (and other uses), see 1728 (number).

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Year 1728 (MDCCXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

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February 28 – At the Battle of Palkhed, Maratha Peshwa Baji Rao I defeats the Mughal Governor of Deccan, Nizam-ul-Mulk.
March 14 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau leaves Geneva for the first time.
May 18 – Peter II succeeds Catherine I as Tsar of Russia.

July 14–August 14 – Vitus Bering sails northward from the Kamchatka Peninsula, through the Bering Strait, and round Cape Dezhnev.
Late Summer – Voltaire ends his exile in England.
October 20–October 23 – The Copenhagen Fire of 1728 (the largest in the city's history) burns.

January 9 – Thomas Warton, English poet (d. 1790)
February 21 – Emperor Peter III of Russia, husband of Catherine the Great (d. 1762)
February 25 – John Wood, the Younger, English architect (d. 1782)
April 16 – Joseph Black, Scottish physicist and chemist (d. 1799)
August 26 – Johann Heinrich Lambert, Swiss mathematician, physicist and astronomer (d. 1777)
August 28 – John Stark, American Revolutionary War general (d. 1822)
September 3 – Matthew Boulton, English manufacturer and lifelong key partner of James Watt (d. 1809)
September 14 – Mercy Otis Warren, American playwright (d. 1814)
October 7 – Caesar Rodney, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1784)
October 27 – James Cook, British naval commander and explorer (d. 1779)
November 10 – Oliver Goldsmith, Irish writer (d. 1774)

February 12 – Agostino Steffani, Italian diplomat and composer (b. 1654)
February 13 – Cotton Mather, New England Puritan minister (b. 1663)
March 4 – Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia, eldest daughter of Peter the Great (b. 1708)
April 3 – James Anderson, Scottish historian (b. 1662)
May 14 – Louise Marie d'Orléans, Mademoiselle, French princess (b.1726)
August 15 – Marin Marais, French viol player and composer (b. 1656)
August 26 – Anne Marie d'Orléans Queen consort of Sicily and Sardinia (b.1669)
September 23 – Christian Thomasius, German jurist (b. 1655)
November 19 – Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, German Prince (b. 1694)
date unknown – Serfoji I, third Raja of the Bhonsle dynasty (b. 1675)

^ Delambre, J. B. (1827). Histoire de l'astronomie au dix-huitième siècle. Paris: Bachelier.

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