The colorful city of Nuuk, Greenland in 2018 - 290 years after it was founded
In the year 1728, Peter II becomes the Tsar of the Russian Empire (Jan 9), Vitus Bering embarks on his first Kamchatka Expedition (Jul 14), confirming the presence of a strait - now known as Bering Strait (Aug 16), the City of Nuuk is founded in Greenland, as Fort Godt-Haab (Aug 29), English astronomer James Bradley uses stellar aberration to calculate the speed of light, and observes nutation of the Earth’s axis - and all these fine people were born:
1728-xxxx Erkki Erkinpoika Hunnakko** father of Liisa Erkintytär Sillanpää - Sweden-Finland (unknown) aby
1728-0109 Thomas Warton* poet/literary historian - Basingstoke, Hampshire, England (1790/62)
1728-0116 Niccolò Piccinni* composer - Bari, Apulia (1800/72)
1728-0221 Peter III of Russia* husband of Catherine II – Kiel, Duchy of Holstein (1762/34)
1728-0225 John Wood, the Younger* architect - England (1782/54)
1728-0307 Isaak Iselin* Swiss philosopher of history and politics - Basel (1782/54)
1728-0312 Anton Raphael Mengs* German painter - Usti nad Labem, Bohemia, Habsburg Empire (1779/51)
1728-0416 Joseph Black* Scottish physicist/chemist/discoverer of magnesium a.o. - Bordeaux, Kingdom of France (1799/71)
1728-0426 François Peltier* priest/ martyr of Anjou - Savennières, Kingdom of France (1794/65)
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1728-0516 Johann Andreas Stein* organ and piano maker/a central figure in the history of the piano – Heidesheim, Germany (1792/63)
1728-0616 Jonas Peldan* merchant/ mayor/civil servant - Mustasaari, Sweden-Finland (1776/47)
1728-0622 Anna Jablonowska* Polish princess/magnate/politician - Wołpa (1800/71)
1728-0629 Magnus Fredrik Tawast* landowner/ soldier - Kangasniemi, Sweden-Finland (1789/60)
1728-0703 Robert Adam* architect/interior designer/furniture designer - Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland (1792/63)
1728-0703 Johan Bilmark* Finnish historian at Turku Academy - Skara, Sweden (1801/72)
1728-0826 Johann Heinrich Lambert* polymath/astronomer - Mulhouse, Swiss Confeederation (1777/49)
1728-0828 John Stark* military officer - Londonderry, Province of New Hampshire, British America (1822/93)
1728-0903 Matthew Boulton* manufacturer/business partner of engineer James Watt – Birmingham, England (1809/80)
1728-0914 Mercy Otis Warren* (b Otis) poet/ playwright/pamphleteer during the American Revolution - Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay, British America (1814/86)
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1728-1005 Chevalier d’Éon* diplomat/ spy/soldier - Tonnerre, Kingdom of France (1810/81)
1728-1007 Caesar Rodney* lawyer/ politician/American Founding Father - Kent County, Delaware Colony, British America (1784/55)
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1728-1017 Juho Matinpoika Orhanen** father of Juho Juhonpoika Orhanen - Kurikka, Sweden-Finland (1783/54)
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1728-1107 James Cook* explorer/ cartographer – Marton, North Riding of Yorskhire, England (1779/50)
1728-1110 Oliver Goldsmith* Anglo-Irish novelist/playwright/dramatist - Ballymahon or Elphin, Kingdom of Ireland (1774/45)
1728-1119 Andreas Malm* priest/ ornithologist - Parainen, Sweden-Finland (1793/64)
1728-1228 Justus Claproth* German jurist/inventor of the deinking process of recycled paper - Kassel, Germany (1805/76)
Updated 12.4.2023-3
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