1728 in Great Britain

none 1728 yes Events from the year 1728 in Great Britain. Incumbents Monarch – George II Prime Minister – Robert Walpole (Whig)History of Sir Robert Walpole - GOV.UK https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/robert-walpole www.gov.uk 12 June 2023 en Events 10 January – The Provoked Husband a comedy based on an unfinished John Vanbrugh play completed by Colley Cibber premieres at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. It appears to be the hit of the theatre season until eclipsed by The Beggars Opera a few weeks later. 29 January – The first performance of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 A major success it leads to a theatre boom and is followed by a number of other ballad operas imitating its style. March – Spain ends its siege of Gibraltar.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will registration London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 31 May – The Royal Bank of Scotland extends the first overdraft (to Edinburgh merchant William Hogg for £1,000).The history of payments in the UK https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7839823.stm BBC News 2009-02-16 2016-02-25 14 June – Congress of Soissons begins in an effort to end the Anglo-Spanish War. Late Summer – Voltaire ends his exile in England. September – Astronomer James Bradley uses stellar aberration (first observed in 1725) to calculate the speed of light.J. B. Delambre Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre Histoire de l'astronomie au dix-huitième siècle Bachelier Paris 1827 James Bradley observes nutation of the Earth's axis. The King's son Frederick, Prince of Wales, arrives in Britain for the first time, aged 21. He has previously lived in Hanover as the House of Hanover's principal resident there since the Hanoverian Succession to the British throne in 1714. Probable date at which the brown rat first enters Britain.John Berkenhout John Berkenhout 1769 Outlines of the Natural History of Great Britain https://archive.org/details/outlinesofnatura03berk Publications Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. James Gibbs' A Book of Architecture, containing designs of buildings and ornaments. Alexander Pope's satirical poem The Dunciad. Daniel Defoe's A Plan of the English Commerce. Births 9 January – Thomas Warton, poet (died 1790) 3 July – Robert Adam, architect (died 1792) 3 September – Matthew Boulton, manufacturer and engineer (died 1809) 27 October (O.S.) – James Cook, naval captain and explorer (died 1779) Deaths 3 April – James Anderson, Scottish lawyer, antiquary and historian (born 1662) See also 1728 in Wales References 1728 Category:Years in the Kingdom of Great Britain Category:1728 by country Category:1728 in Europe Category:1720s in Great Britain