1729

This article is about the year 1729. For the number, see 1729 (number).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century 18th century 19th century
Decades:	1700s 1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s
Years:	1726 1727 1728 1729 1730 1731 1732

1729 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1729 MDCCXXIX
Ab urbe condita	2482
Armenian calendar	1178 ԹՎ ՌՃՀԸ
Assyrian calendar	6479
Balinese saka calendar	1650–1651
Bengali calendar	1136
Berber calendar	2679
British Regnal year	2 Geo. 2 – 3 Geo. 2
Buddhist calendar	2273
Burmese calendar	1091
Byzantine calendar	7237–7238
Chinese calendar	戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 4426 or 4219     — to — 己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 4427 or 4220
Coptic calendar	1445–1446
Discordian calendar	2895
Ethiopian calendar	1721–1722
Hebrew calendar	5489–5490
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1785–1786
- Shaka Samvat	1650–1651
- Kali Yuga	4829–4830
Holocene calendar	11729
Igbo calendar	729–730
Iranian calendar	1107–1108
Islamic calendar	1141–1142
Japanese calendar	Kyōhō 14 (享保１４年)
Javanese calendar	1653–1654
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4062
Minguo calendar	183 before ROC 民前183年
Nanakshahi calendar	261
Thai solar calendar	2271–2272
Tibetan calendar	阳土猴年 (male Earth-Monkey) 1855 or 1474 or 702     — to — 阴土鸡年 (female Earth-Rooster) 1856 or 1475 or 703

1729 (MDCCXXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1729th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 729th year of the 2nd millennium, the 29th year of the 18th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1720s decade. As of the start of 1729, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

January–June

• March 23 (evening) – Première performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's First Köthen Funeral music at St. Jakob, Köthen in honor of the funeral of his former employer Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen.
• March 24 (morning) – Première performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's funeral cantata Klagt, Kinder, klagt es aller Welt, BWV 244a at St. Jakob, for the same event as the previous day.
• April 15 – Repeat performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion, BWV 244b at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig.

July–December

• July 25 – Seven of the original eight Lords Proprietor sell their tracts within the Province of Carolina back to the British crown. The Province is permanently divided and reorganized into the Royal Colonies of North Carolina and South Carolina.
• July 30 – Baltimore, Maryland is founded.
• August 1 – The Comet of 1729, possibly the largest comet, with the highest apparent magnitude, on record, is discovered by Fr. Nicolas Sarrabat, a professor of mathematics at Marseille.
• September 29–October 5 – Battle of Damghan: The Persians under Nader Shah defeat the Afghans and their allies.
• November – Completion of the first (wooden) Putney Bridge as the only fixed crossing of the River Thames between London Bridge and Kingston in England.
• November 9 – The Treaty of Seville is signed between Great Britain, France, Spain and the Dutch Republic.
• November 29 – Natchez revolt: The worst Indian massacre to take place on Mississippi soil occurs when Natchez people kill 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie (near modern-day Natchez, Mississippi).

Date unknown

• The third oldest settlement in Mississippi, Port Gibson, is founded.
• A fire in Istanbul destroys 12,000 houses and kills 7,000 inhabitants.
• Jonathan Swift (anonymously) publishes his satire A Modest Proposal.

Births

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Catherine II of Russia

• January 12
  • Lazzaro Spallanzani, Italian biologist (d. 1799)
  • Edmund Burke, Irish statesman and philosopher (d. 1797)
• January 22 – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German author and philosopher (d. 1781)
• May 2 – Catherine the Great of Russia (d. 1796)
• August 10 – William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, British general (d. 1814)
• September 6 – Moses Mendelssohn, German Jewish philosopher (d. 1786)
• November 17 – Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain, Queen consort of Sardinia (d. 1785)
• November 21 – Josiah Bartlett, Second Signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1795)
• November 12 – Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French navigator and military commander (d. 1811)
• November 24 – Alexander Suvorov, Russian general (d. 1800)
• date unknown
  • David Barclay of Youngsbury, English merchant, businessman and banker (d. 1809)
  • Samuel Barrington, British admiral (d. 1800)
  • Elizabeth Woollat, wife of Jedediah Strutt (d. 1774)

Deaths

• January 19 – William Congreve, English playwright (b. 1670)
• January 31 – Jacob Roggeveen, Dutch explorer (b. 1659)
• March 2 – Francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher and scientist (b. 1662)
• March 21 – John Law, Scottish economist (b. 1671)
• March 21 – Elżbieta Sieniawska politically influential Polish magnate (b. 1669)
• May 17 – Samuel Clarke, English philosopher (b. 1675)
• June 27 – Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, French harpsichordist and composer (b. 1665)
• July 16 – Johann David Heinichen, German composer (b. 1683)
• August 5 – Thomas Newcomen, English inventor (b. 1663)
• September 1 – Richard Steele, Irish writer and politician (b. 1672)
• September 3 – Jean Hardouin, French scholar (b. 1646)
• September 7 – William Burnet, British Governor of New York and New Jersey (b. 1688)
• October 9 – Richard Blackmore, English physician and writer (b. 1654)
• December 1 – Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (b. 1665)
• December 13 – Anthony Collins, English philosopher (b. 1676)
• December – Doamna Marica Brâncoveanu, princess consort of Wallachia (b. 1661)

Further reading

• John Blair; J. Willoughby Rosse (1856). "1729". Blair's Chronological Tables. London: H.G. Bohn – via Hathi Trust. {{cite book}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)