This article is about the year. For the number, see 1729 (number).
Year 1729 (MDCCXXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1729
Undated
Births
- January 12 - Lazzaro Spallanzani, Italian biologist (d. 1799)
- January 12 - Edmund Burke, Irish statesman and philosopher (d. 1797)
- January 22 - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German author and philosopher (d. 1781)
- April 21 - Catherine the Great of Russia (d. 1796)
- August 10 - William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, British general (d. 1814)
- 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 - Samuel Barrington, British admiral (d. 1800)
- Elizabeth Woollat, wife of Jedediah Strutt (d. 1774)
- See also Category: 1729 births.
Deaths
- January 19 - William Congreve, English playwright (b. 1670)
- January 31 - Jakob Roggeveen, Dutch explorer (b. 1659)
- March 2 - Francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher and scientist (b. 1662)
- March 21 - John Law, Scottish economist (b. 1671)
- May 17 - Samuel Clarke, English philosopher (b. 1675)
- July 16 - Johann David Heinichen, German composer (b. 1683)
- August 5 - Thomas Newcomen, English inventor (b. 1663)
- 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)
- See also Category: 1729 deaths.
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