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	Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science
	Countries: Canada – Great Britain –
	Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
	Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
	Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1690s 1700s 1710s – 1720s – 1730s 1740s 1750s
Years:	1726 1727 1728 – 1729 – 1730 1731 1732

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

[edit] Events of 1729

July 25 – Seven of the original eight Lords Proprietors sell their tracts within the Province of Carolina back to the 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 on record, was discovered by Nicolas Sarabat.
November 9 – The Treaty of Seville is signed between Great Britain, France, Spain and the Dutch Republic.
November 28 – The worst Indian massacre to take place on Mississippi soil occurs when Natchez Indians kill 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie (near modern-day Natchez, Mississippi).

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.

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.