Events from the year 1728 in Canada.
Incumbents
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French Monarch
France was ruled by monarchs from the establishment of the Kingdom of West Francia in 843 until the end of the Second French Empire in 1870, with several interruptions.
Classical French historiography usually regards Clovis I () as the firs ...
:
Louis XV
*
British and Irish Monarch:
George II
Governors
*
Governor General of New France:
Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois
*
Colonial Governor of Louisiana:
Étienne Perier
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Governor of Nova Scotia
The following is a list of the governors and lieutenant governors of Nova Scotia. Though the present day office of the lieutenant governor in Nova Scotia came into being only upon the province's entry into Canadian Confederation in 1867, the po ...
:
Lawrence Armstrong
*
Governor of Placentia:
Samuel Gledhill
Samuel Gledhill (7 April 1677 - 1735 or 1736) was the lieutenant-governor of Placentia, Newfoundland from 1719-c.1730.
He was born at Horbury, near Wakefieid, Yorkshire, the youngest of the 13 children of Robert Gledhill, a cloth-dresser and ...
Events
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Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La VĂ©rendrye was appointed commandant of the French posts on the north shore of
Lake Superior and stationed at
Fort Kaministiquia
*
Vitus Bering sails through the
Bering Strait.
Births
* -
James Cook
James Cook (7 November 1728 Old Style date: 27 October – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the British Royal Navy, famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean an ...
killed by
Hawaiian natives, cutting short his search for
Northwest Passage. (died
1779
Events
January–March
* January 11 – British troops surrender to the Marathas in Wadgaon, India, and are forced to return all territories acquired since 1773.
* January 11 – Ching-Thang Khomba is crowned King of Manip ...
)
*
Samuel Holland, army officer, military engineer, surveyor, office holder, politician, and landowner (died
1801
Events
January–March
* January 1
** The legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland is completed under the Act of Union 1800, bringing about the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the abolition of the Parliament of I ...
)
Deaths
* February 20 -
J Raudot
Jacques Raudot (1638 - 20 February 1728, Paris) was the co- Intendant of New France between 1705 and 1710 with his son Antoine-Denis Raudot Antoine-Denis Raudot (1679 in Versailles, France – 28 July 1737).
He was the co-intendant of New Fra ...
,
Intendant of New France (born 1638)
Historical documents
Nova Scotia governor petitions King for measures to address long-standing problems of defence, communication and control
Surveyor of His Majesty's Woods instructed to mark out at least 200,000 acres of
forest in Nova Scotia for
Royal Navy use
"Uninhabited (except by a few
Indians
Indian or Indians may refer to:
Peoples South Asia
* Indian people, people of Indian nationality, or people who have an Indian ancestor
** Non-resident Indian, a citizen of India who has temporarily emigrated to another country
* South Asia ...
)" - Petition to settle
colonial grey zone (now in Maine) between
British and
French
French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to France
** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents
** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...
claims
"
Deep Bays
A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. A large bay is usually called a gulf, sea, sound, or bight. A cove is a small, circular bay with a narr ...
, large
Coves and Rivers, and most excellent
Harbours" - Guide to sailing charted Newfoundland
coasts"Sailing Directions for the East and South Coasts of the great Island of Newfoundland, or so much thereof as is fully survey'd; the North and East Parts, and those formerly possess'd by the French, being not yet finish'd"
A General Coasting Pilot; Containing Directions for Sailing ..orts and Harbours throughout the Known World, with a Sett of Sea-Charts ..(1728), pgs. 129-35. Accessed 8 April 2021
References
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