History
1728
General
Population: 687 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Henry Fielding (comedy), Alexander Pope, Allan Ramsay Poems, Richard Savage, Ephraim Chambers (arts and sciences),
Francis Hucheson (emotions), William Law (religion), Jonathan Swift (Ireland), William Byrd (Britain and the Americas)
Art includes Chardin "The Rain", James Givvs publishes Book fo Architecture
Music includes John Gay "Beggar's Opera"
- Exploration: Dutch explirer Vitus Behring discovers strait and begins to explore Alaska
Danish captain under Russian employ reaches N Pacific near Russia
- Medicine: P Fauchard writes about dentistry and teeth
- Science: James Bradley discovers aberration of light of fixed stars
Sloane publishes that fossils found are elephants, not monsters
- Deaths: Philosopher Christian Thomasius, Writer and witch hunter Cotton Mather, Margaret Dickson (nearly - see Great Britain)
Europe
- General: Spain raises siege of Gibraltar after 14 months
Treaty of Berlin between HRE Charles VI and Frederick William of Prussia
- France: Congress of Soissons
- Great Britain: Margaret Dickson of Scotland executed but climbed out of coffin on way to cemetery – she had to remarry husband because she was legally declared dead(
- Spain: Madrid Lodge of Freemasons founded – soon suppressed by Inquisition
West and Pacific
- Alaska: Dutch explirer Vitus Behring discovers strait and begins to explore Alaska,