1729
Events July 30 - Baltimore, Maryland is founded. First printing press was established in Ottoman Empire (app. 300 years after it was first used in western civilization) by Ibrahim Muteferrika. Astronomer James Bradley discovers and describes the prinicple of aberration of starlight.
BirthsJanuary 12 - Edmund Burke, statesman, philosopher (d. 1797)January 22 - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, author and philosopher (d. 1781) May 2 - Catherine the Great of Russia (d. 1796)
DeathsJanuary 19 - William Congreve, English playwrightMay 17 - Samuel Clarke, English philosopher August 5 - Thomas Newcomen, English inventor of an early steam engine (born 1663)
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