| Year | Description | Reference |
| 1,719 AD | Arnold Houbraken, painter/writer), dies at 59 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,719 AD | French Anneessens, Belgian merchant, executed at 59 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,719 AD | Steven J Vennekool, Amsterdam's master builder, buried | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,719 AD | Joaquin de Oxinaga, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,719 AD | John Hawkins, England, wrote 1st history of music, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,719 AD | John/Jean Nepveu, Dutch governor of Suriname (1768-79), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,719 AD | Magnus G Lichtwer, German writer (Žsopischer Fabeln), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,719 AD | Aert Schouman, Dutch bird/portrait painter, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,719 AD | Christian Gottfried Krause, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,719 AD | Ferdinand Zellbell, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,719 AD | Franz K von Velbruck, German free mason/prince-bishop of Luik, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,719 AD | Gottfried Achenwall, German lawyer/statistician/economist, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,719 AD | Jean-Joseph Vade, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,719 AD | Jan Nepveu, governor-general of Suriname (1768-79) [or Aug 27], was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,719 AD | Giovanni Maria Casini, composer, dies at 66 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,719 AD | Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French priest/theory/saint, dies at 67 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,719 AD | Johann Friedrich Treiber, composer, dies at 76 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,719 AD | Johann Georg Christian Storl, composer, dies at 43 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,719 AD | Johann Valentin Meder, composer, dies at 70 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,719 AD | John Weenix, painter, buried | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,719 AD | Joseph Addison, English poet/writer/secretary of state, dies at 47 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,719 AD | Karl H Freiherr von Canstein, German lawyer, dies at 52 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,720 AD | Samuel Foote, England, actor/dramatist (Mirror), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,720 AD | Martin Gerbert, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,720 AD | Gijsbert John van Hardenbroeck, Utrechts regent, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,720 AD | Gilbert White, "father of British naturalists", was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,720 AD | Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian etcher, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,720 AD | Ignaz Vitzthumb, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,720 AD | Johann F Agricola, German (court)composer/organist, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,720 AD | Johann P Uz, German poet (Lyrische Poem), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,720 AD | Martin Gerbert, [von Hornau], prince-abbot/music historian, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,720 AD | Maria Teresa Agnesi, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,720 AD | Louise Ulrike, queen of Sweden/wife of Adolf Frederik, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,720 AD | Antoine Coyzevox, French sculptor (Nazarin, Le N“tre), dies at 80 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,720 AD | Georg Bronner, composer, dies at 53 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,720 AD | Johann Samuel Welter, composer, dies at 69 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,720 AD | Pieter van Flowers, Flemish painter, buried at 63 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,720 AD | Frederick Philipse III, NYC, land owner (Bronx, Westchester & Putnam), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,720 AD | Franz Joseph Leonti Meyer von Schavensee, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,720 AD | Elia van Vilnius, [Elijahu ben Salomo Zalman], Latvian rabbi, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,720 AD | Charles D J Eisen, French engraver/painter (Contes de La Fontaine), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,720 AD | Bernard de Bury, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,720 AD | Antonio Corbisiero, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,720 AD | Adolph Carl Kunzen, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,721 AD | Roger Sherman, signer (Decl of Ind, Constitution), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,721 AD | Matthew Prior, poet/diplomat, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,721 AD | Petrus Laurentius Wockenfuss, composer, dies at 46 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,721 AD | Rochus Aerts, Flemish sculptor | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,721 AD | Rudolph J Camerarius, German physician (sexuality plans), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,721 AD | Jean Antoine Watteau, French painter, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,721 AD | James Stanhope 1st earl of Stanhope, English general, dies at 47 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,721 AD | Geleyn Evertsen, lt-admiral of Zealand, dies at 66 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,721 AD | Clement XI, [Giovanni F Albani], Italian Pope (1700-21), dies at 71 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,721 AD | Bernhard Albinus, [Weiss], German artist (Frederik of Prussia), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,721 AD | Benott Audran, artist/engraver, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,721 AD | Abraham Alewijn, poet/playwright (Beslikte Swaantje), dies at 36 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,721 AD | Thomas McKean, attorney (signed Declaration of Independence) [or 3/19], was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,721 AD | Tobias Smollett, Scottish writer, baptized, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,721 AD | William August duke of Cumberland, English army leader, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,721 AD | Francis Ireland, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,721 AD | Fran‡ois-Joseph Krafft, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,721 AD | Johann Philipp Kirnberger, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,721 AD | John Hanson, Maryland, 1st US Pres under Articles of Confederation, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,721 AD | John Reid, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,721 AD | Lucretia W van Merken, Dutch poetess, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,721 AD | Pierre Talon, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,721 AD | Pieter Hellendaal, Dutch violinist/organist/composer (Glees), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,722 AD | Gregorio Sciroli, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,722 AD | Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,722 AD | Jean-No‰l/Joannes Natalis Paquot, Belgian priest/historian, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,722 AD | Antoine Coypel, French painter/poet, dies at 60 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,722 AD | Campegius Vitringa, theologist, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,722 AD | Gerard Callenbach, Dutch admiral, dies at 80 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,722 AD | Johann Kuhnau, composer, dies at 62 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,722 AD | John Churchill up Marlborough, English general strategist, dies at 72 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,722 AD | Pieter Erberfeld, German/Thais merchant on Java, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,722 AD | Johannes Schmidlin, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,722 AD | Jiri Antonin Benda, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,722 AD | Joseph Wilton, sculptor, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,722 AD | Joseph Paul Ziegler, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,722 AD | Peter Camper, Leyden Holland, anatomist/professor (Amsterdam), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,722 AD | Pietro Nardini, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,722 AD | Prestonpans, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,722 AD | Samuel Adams, revolutionary rabble rouser/(Lt Gov-Mass, 1789-94), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,722 AD | Wilhelm Gottfried Enderle, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,722 AD | Adrien Trudo Sale, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,722 AD | Christopher Smart, English poet & journalist (Ceremony of Carols), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,722 AD | Friedrich Gottlob Fleischer, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,723 AD | Frederik V, King of Denmark/Norway (1746-66), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,723 AD | Johann A Cramer, prime minister/poet, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,723 AD | Johann Andreas Joseph Giulini, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,723 AD | John Wainwright, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,723 AD | John Witherspoon, clergyman/signed Declaration of Independence, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,723 AD | Joshua Reynolds, England, portrait painter (Simplicity), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,723 AD | William Blackstone, England, jurist (Blackstone's Commentaries), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,723 AD | Adam Ferguson, Scottish sociologist/historian, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,723 AD | Adam Smith, Kirkcaldy Scot, economist (Wealth of Nations) (baptized), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,723 AD | Christian Ernst Graf, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,723 AD | Christian Friedrich Gregor, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,723 AD | Giovanni Marco Rutini, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,723 AD | Giuseppe Scarlotti, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,723 AD | J G Palitzsch, 1st saw Halley's comet on return, Prolitz, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,723 AD | Abb‚ Dubois, French archbishop of Canbrier/premier (1722-23), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,723 AD | Antoine Mouque, composer, dies at 64 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,723 AD | Antonio M Valsalva, Italian anatomist, dies at 66 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,723 AD | Christopher Wren, England, astronomer/architect, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,723 AD | Claude F Tserclaes, South Neth earl of Tilly, dies at 74 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,723 AD | Cosimo III de' Medici, monarch of Florence (1670-1723), dies at 81 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,723 AD | Dimitrie Cantemir, philosopher/monarch of Moldova 1710-11, dies at 49 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,723 AD | J Fischer von Erlach, Austrian architect (Hofburg, Vienna), dies at 66 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,723 AD | Mariana Alcoforado, nun (schreef no Lettres Portuguese), dies at 63 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,723 AD | Thonis van Leeuwenhoek, biologist/inventor (microscope), dies at 90 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,723 AD | Willem van de Pose, gov of Cape Colony (1699-1797), dies at about 59 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,723 AD | Kaat Mussel, [Catharina Mulder], Dutch demonstrater, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,723 AD | Antony van Leeuwenhoek dies (discoverer of microbiology) | Scientific American, Apr98, pp 50 |
| 1,723 AD | Nicolas de Pigage, French classical architect, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,723 AD | Pedro R de Campomanes, Spanish economist/historian/literary, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,723 AD | Tobias Mayer, "method of lunars" for longitude determination, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,723 AD | Christleib Siegmund Binder, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,724 AD | John Nieuwenhuijzen, theologist/co-founder (Society of It General), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,724 AD | Lyman Hall, US physician (signed Declaration of Independence), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,724 AD | Paul-Louis Cyffl‚, Flemish sculptor (Terre de Lorraine), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,724 AD | Ferdinand Philipp Joseph Lobkowitz, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,724 AD | Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,724 AD | George Stubbs, England, animal painter (House Frightened by Lion), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,724 AD | Ignaz Franz Xaver Kurzinger, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,724 AD | Andreas Kneller, composer, dies at 75 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,724 AD | Enrico Giovanni Zuccalli, Swiss architect, dies at about 81 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,724 AD | Francisco Jose Coutinho, composer, dies at 43 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,724 AD | Innocent XIII, [Michelangiolo dei Conti], Pope (1721-24), dies at 68 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,724 AD | Johann K Amman, Swiss/Dutch doctor for deaf-mutes, dies at 54 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,724 AD | Johann Theile, composer, dies at 77 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,724 AD | Giovanni Battista Cirri, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,724 AD | Immanuel Kant, Germany, philosopher (Critique of Pure Reason), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,724 AD | Johan A Zoutman, Dutch lt-admiral (battle of Doggersbank), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,725 AD | Ferdinando Bertoni, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,725 AD | Fran‡ois Bainville, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,725 AD | Georg Simon Lohlein, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,725 AD | Giacomo Casanova, Italian writer/philanderer/adventurer (uncertain), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,725 AD | Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,725 AD | Johann Balthasar Kehl, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,725 AD | Johann Friedrich Kloffler, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,725 AD | Sir Issac Newton dies | TBD |
| 1,725 AD | John Wilkes, English journalist/Higher/Lower house leader (N Briton), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,725 AD | Joseph Anton Bauer, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,725 AD | Joseph Franz Xaver Dominik Stalder, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,725 AD | Robert Haley earl of Oxford, English Whig-premier (1710-4), dies at 63 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,725 AD | Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlotti, composer, dies at 65 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,725 AD | Peter I "the Great" Romanov, czar of Russia, dies at 52 [NS=Feb 8] | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,725 AD | Peter I "the Great" Romanov, czar of Russia (1682-1725), dies at 52 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,725 AD | John Lovewell, US indian fighter, dies in battle | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,725 AD | Johann Philipp Krieger, composer, dies at 75 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,725 AD | Jacob Hop, politician/diplomat, dies at 71 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,725 AD | Gerard Noodt, lawyer, dies at 77 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,725 AD | Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, designed & built 1st automobile, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,725 AD | Abdl-Hamid I, 27th sultan of Turkey (1774-89), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,725 AD | Armand-Louis Couperin, Paris France, organist/composer (Notre Dame), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,726 AD | Josef Antonin Stepan, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,726 AD | Moshe Darshan, Rabbi/author (Torat Ahsam), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,726 AD | Michel-Richard de Lalande, composer, dies at 68 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,726 AD | Maximilian II M Emanuel, ruler of Bayern, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,726 AD | John Vanbrugh, Dutch/English playwright (Provoked Wife), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,726 AD | John B Wellekens, poet/painter (Wedding Guests), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,726 AD | Jeremy Collier, historian/opponent to theater, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,726 AD | Henri‰tte Amalia, ruler of Nassau-Dietz, dies at 49 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,726 AD | Guillaume Delisle, French geographer (Atlas g‚ographique), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,726 AD | Giovanni Maria Capelli, composer, dies at 77 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,726 AD | Domenico Zipoli, composer, dies at 37 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,726 AD | Jozef de Ferraris, French/Austrian earl/general/cartographer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,726 AD | Karl Kohaut, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,726 AD | Lewis Morris, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,726 AD | Louise-Florence d'pinay, France, writer (Woman, Man & 2 Kingdoms), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,726 AD | Pasquale Paoli, Corsican freedom fighter, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,726 AD | William Jones, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,726 AD | Abraham Clark, farmer/lawyer, signed Declaration of Independence, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,726 AD | Cornelis Ploos of Amstel, Dutch engraver/art collector, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,726 AD | Fran‡ois-Andr‚ Danican Philidor, France, composer/chess champion, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,726 AD | Giuseppi Paolucci, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,726 AD | Hendrik D F L, prince of Prussia/diplomat, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,727 AD | Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer/choreographer (ballet d'action), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,727 AD | Johann Christoph Schmugel, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,727 AD | Johann Georg Holzbogen, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,727 AD | Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (Blue Boy), baptized, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,727 AD | Philippe-Lambert-Joseph Spruyt, Flemish painter/engraver, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,727 AD | "A Modest Proposal" released by Johnathan Swift | TBD |
| 1,727 AD | Pasquale Ankossi, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,727 AD | Michel Adanson, French biologist (Natural History of S‚n‚gal), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,727 AD | Maximilian III Jozef, Elector of Bayern (1745-77), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,727 AD | Johann Wilhelm Hertel, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,727 AD | Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,727 AD | William Croft, composer, dies at 48 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,727 AD | Paul Aler, French jesuit/poet (Gradus ad Parnassum), dies at 70 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,727 AD | John van Bylevelt, Catholic apostole, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,727 AD | Johann Philipp Treiber, composer, dies at 52 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,727 AD | Jacques Abbadie, French theologist, dies at about 73 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,727 AD | Issac Newton, English physicist/astronomer, dies in London at 84 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,727 AD | George Ludwig, German monarch of Hannover/king of England, dies at 67 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,727 AD | Fran‡ois Valentijn, vicar/writer, dies at 61 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,727 AD | Franz Weichlein, composer, dies at 67 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,727 AD | Francesco Gasparini, composer, dies at 58 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,727 AD | Cornelis Cruys, Norwegian/Dutch admiral, dies at 70 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,727 AD | Catherine I, emperess of Russia, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,727 AD | Catharina I, Latvia tsarina of Russia, dies at about 42 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,727 AD | Alphonse d' Eve, composer, dies at 61 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,727 AD | Tommaso MFS Traetta, Ital's opera composer/band leader (Farnace), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,727 AD | Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, French minister of Finance (17.. -76), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,727 AD | Claude-Benigne Balbastre, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,727 AD | Franz Sebastian Haindl, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,727 AD | Friedrich Hartmann Graf, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,727 AD | Gaspare Gabellone, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,727 AD | Henri Hardouin, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,727 AD | Henry Harington, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,727 AD | James Wolfe, commanded British Army (captured Qu‚bec), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,728 AD | Peter III Feodorovich, German/Russian czar of Russia (1761-62), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,728 AD | Niccol• Piccinni, Italian composer (Buona Figliuola), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,728 AD | Louis Emmanuel Eadin, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,728 AD | Agostino Steffani, composer, dies at 73 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,728 AD | Anne Danican Philidor, composer, dies at 47 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,728 AD | Gian M Crescimbeni, Italian literary/critic (Arcadia), dies at 64 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,728 AD | Henricus Zwaardecroon, gov-gen of Neth-Indies, dies at 61 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,728 AD | Johann Christoph Schmidt, composer, dies at 63 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,728 AD | John Woodward, geologist/physician, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,728 AD | Marin Marias, composer, dies at 72 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,728 AD | Tomas de Torrejon y Velasco, composer, dies at 83 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,728 AD | Louis Barbiano de Belgioioso, Austrian count/diplomat in Belgium, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,728 AD | Joseph Zwart, Scottish chemist/physicist, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,728 AD | Johann Lambert, Switzerland, mathematician, proved ã is irrational, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,728 AD | Johann Gottfried Muthel, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,728 AD | James Cook, Scotland, captain/explorer, discovered Sandwich Islands, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,728 AD | Henri Moreau, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,728 AD | Giacomo Insanguine, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,728 AD | Franz Asplmayr, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,728 AD | Franciscus L Kersteman, Dutch lawyer/astrologist, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,728 AD | Francisco Albergati Capacelli, Italian playwright, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,728 AD | Domingos dos Reis Quita, Portuguese playwright/poet, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,728 AD | Charles-Joseph-Balthazar Sohier, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,728 AD | Charles G Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont, French spy/transvestite, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,728 AD | Caesar Rodney, Delaware, judge/signer (Declaration of Independence), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,728 AD | Anton Raphael Mengs, German writer/neo-classic painter, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,728 AD | Antoine Court de G‚belin, French vicar/writer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,728 AD | Thomas Warton, poet laureate of England (Pleasures of Melancholy), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,728 AD | Samuel Wallis, explorer (Wallis Island), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,728 AD | Robert Bage, English writer (Criticism by Peter Faulkner), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,728 AD | Robert Adam, architect/designer (Adelphi Terrace, London), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,728 AD | Pietro Alessandro Pavona, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,728 AD | Pieter-Jozef Verhaghen, Flemish (court)painter, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,728 AD | Peter III, Kiel Germany, Russian tsar (1762)/husband of Catherine, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,729 AD | Benjamin Neukirch, German poet (Herrn von Hofmannswaldau), dies at 64 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,729 AD | Arnold Boonen, portrait painter, dies at 60 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,729 AD | Moses Mendelssohn, philosopher/critic/Bible translator, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,729 AD | Mozes Mendelssohn, German englightened philosopher (Haksalah), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,729 AD | Paul C la Fargue, cartoonist/painter, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,729 AD | Pierre van Maldere, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,729 AD | Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,729 AD | George Washington born | TBD |
| 1,729 AD | Pieter Fouquet, Dutch art seller (Atlas of Fouquet), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,729 AD | Thomas Percy, English literary/bishop of Dromore, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,729 AD | Catharina II, the Great, writer/emperess of Russia (1762-96), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,729 AD | Catherine II, the Great, empress of Russia (1762-96), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,729 AD | Christian G Heyne, German archaeologist, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,729 AD | Claudio M da Costa, Brazilian poet, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,729 AD | Edmund Burke, British author (Philosophy & Inquiry) [NS], was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,729 AD | Edmund Burke, British author (Philosophy & Inquiry) [OS], was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,729 AD | Florian Johann Deller, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,729 AD | Florian Leopold Gassmann, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,729 AD | Gaetano B Vestris, Italian/French ballet dancer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,729 AD | Georg W "Franz" Panzer, German vicar/librarian (Annales typographic), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,729 AD | George Wilhelm Gruber, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,729 AD | Giuseppe Luigi Tibaldi, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,729 AD | Giuseppe Parini, Italian priest/poet (Il Giorno), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,729 AD | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Germany, critic/dramatist, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,729 AD | Henry William (Baron) Stiegel, early American glassmaker, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,729 AD | Jean de Neufville, Dutch/US merchant (started 4th English war), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,729 AD | Lazzaro Spallanzani, Modena Italy, physiologist, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,729 AD | Michael Dennis, jesuit/author, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,729 AD | Micha‰l F B Freiherr von Melas, Austrian general (7 Year Wars), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,729 AD | William Congreve, English dramatist, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,729 AD | Nicola Francesco Haym, composer, dies at 51 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,729 AD | Meir Bacharach, Hebrew poet, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,729 AD | Matthaeus de Cock, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1725-29), dies at about 65 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,729 AD | Manuel de Egues, composer, dies at 72 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,729 AD | John Law, Scottish financier, dies at about 57 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,729 AD | Johann David Heinichen, composer, dies at 46 | NewDay PC DB |