30th July » Foundation of Baltimore known as Baltimore, Maryland.
9th November » Spain, France and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Seville.
29th November » Natchez people called Natchez Indians Natchez revolt e.g massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi.
Famous Birthdays in 1729
10th January » Lazzaro Spallanzani, Italian biologist (d. 1799)
12th January » Edmund Burke, Irish politician and philosopher (d. 1797)
22nd January » Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German author and philosopher (d. 1781)
23rd February » Josiah Hornblower, English-American engineer and politician (d. 1809)
13th April » Thomas Percy (bishop of Dromore) known as Thomas Percy, Irish bishop (d. 1811)
2nd May » Catherine the Great, Russian wife of Peter III of Russia (d. 1796)
3rd May » Florian Leopold Gassmann, Czech composer (d. 1774)
23rd May » Giuseppe Parini, Italian poet (d. 1799)
6th September » Moses Mendelssohn, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1786)
27th September » Michael Denis, Austrian lepidopterist, author, and poet (d. 1800)
1st October » Anton Cajetan Adlgasser, German organist and composer (d. 1777)
16th October » Pierre van Maldere, Belgian violinist and composer (d. 1768)
17th October » Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, French composer (d. 1817)
22nd October » Johann Reinhold Forster, German pastor and botanist (d. 1798)
12th November » Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French admiral and explorer (d. 1811)
17th November » Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain (d. 1785)
21st November » Josiah Bartlett, American physician and politician, 6th Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1795)
24th November » Alexander Suvorov, Russian general (d. 1800)
3rd December » Antonio Soler, Spanish composer and theorist (d. 1783)
Famous Deaths in History for 1729
19th January » William Congreve (playwright) named William Congreve, English playwright (b. 1670)
31st January » Jacob Roggeveen, Dutch explorer (b. 1659)
2nd March » Francesco Bianchini, Italian astronomer and philosopher (b. 1662)
21st March » John Law (economist) called John Law, Scottish economist (b. 1671)
4th May » Louis Antoine de Noailles, French cardinal (b. 1651)
17th May » Samuel Clarke, English clergyman and philosopher (b. 1675)
16th July » Johann David Heinichen, German composer and theorist (b. 1683)
5th August » Thomas Newcomen, English engineer, invented the Newcomen steam engine (b. 1664)
3rd September » Jean Hardouin, French historian and scholar (b. 1646)
7th September » William Burnet (colonial administrator) e.g William Burnet, Dutch-American civil servant and politician, 21st List of colonial governors of New York e.g Governor of the Province of New York (b. 1688)
9th October » Richard Blackmore, English physician and poet (b. 1654)
1st December » Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer and mathematician (b. 1665)
13th December » Anthony Collins, English philosopher (b. 1676)