- This article is about the year. For the number, see 1729 (number).
Year 1729 (MDCCXXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1729
Undated
Births
- See also Category: 1729 births.
Deaths
- January 19 - William Congreve, English playwright (born 1670)
- January 31 - Jakob Roggeveen, Dutch explorer (born 1659)
- March 2 - Francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher and scientist (born 1662)
- March 21 - John Law, Scottish economist (born 1671)
- May 17 - Samuel Clarke, English philosopher (born 1675)
- July 16 - Johann David Heinichen, German composer (born 1683)
- August 5 - Thomas Newcomen, English inventor (born 1663)
- September 3 - Jean Hardouin, French scholar (born 1646)
- September 7 - William Burnet, British Governor of New York and New Jersey (born 1688)
- October 9 - Richard Blackmore, English physician and writer (born 1654)
- December 1 - Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (born 1665)
- December 13 - Anthony Collins, English philosopher (born 1676)
- See also Category: 1729 deaths.
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