History
1729
General
Population: 688 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Henry Fielding (play), Albrecht von Haller (poem), Thomas Sherlock (religious fiction), Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal,
Benjamin Franklin The Pennsylvania Gazette
Art includes Desportes "Still Life with Oysters", JF de Troy "Rape of the Sabines"
Music includes John Gay (ballad opera), JS Bach "St. Matthew Passion"
- Science: Newton's "Principia" translated into English by Andrew Motte
- Technology: Stephen Gray discovers conductors and non-conductors
- Deaths: Journalist Richard Steele, Dramatist William Congreve
Asia
- China: Yongzheng sets up Grand Council of military advisors
Emperor Yung Cheng prohibits opium smoking
Europe
- General: Treaty of Seville between France Spain and England
End of Congress of Soissons
- Great Britain: John Wood builds Queen's Square in Bath
- Ireland: Famine ends
- Italian States: Corsica becomes independent of Genoa
- Spain: Academia de Cuevas latras in Barcelona founded
Middle East
- General: Portugal loses Mombasa to the Arabs
- Ottoman Empire: Fire in Constantinople Turkey kills 7000
East
- Maryland: Founding of Baltimore
- Massachusetts: Measles outbreak
- Pennsylvania: Benjamin and James Franklin publish "Pennsylvania Gazette" 36 years
South
- General: Carolinas split
- North Carolina: Becomes crown colony
- South Carolina: Becomes crown colony