Events from the year 1728 in
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Incumbents
*Monarch:
Louis XV
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March 5
Events Pre-1600
* 363 – Roman emperor Julian leaves Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sasanian Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death.
* 1046 – Nasir Khusraw begins the seven-year Middle Eastern ...
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Jacques Beaufranchet, Beauvoisis regiment captain
[Connaissez-vous ces auvergnats célèbres ? 1750-1850, Georges-Léonard Hémeret, Editions Créer (1990) p.168]
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October 5 –
Chevalier d'Eon, French diplomat, spy, soldier and transvestite (d.
1810
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Major-General Lachlan Macquarie officially becomes Governor of New South Wales.
* January 4 – Australian seal hunter Frederick Hasselborough discovers Campbell Island, in the Subantarctic.
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May 14 –
Louise Marie d'Orléans, ''Mademoiselle'', French princess (b.
1726
Events
January–March
* January 23 – (January 12 Old Style) The Conventicle Act (''Konventikelplakatet'') is adopted in Sweden, outlawing all non-Lutheran religious meetings outside of church services.
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August 15 –
Marin Marais, French viol player and composer (b.
1656
Events
January–March
* January 5 – The First War of Villmergen, a civil war in the Confederation of Switzerland pitting its Protestant and Roman Catholic cantons against each other, breaks out but is resolved by March 7. The ...
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See also
References
{{Year in Europe, 1728
1720s in France