April 29 –John Essington, a member of the British House of Commons, is expelled from Commons after a successful petition to have him unseated. Essington, deep in debt, dies in Newgate Prison less than year later.
April 30 – The 82 survivors of the wreckage of the Dutch East India Company frigateZeewijk arrive in the new ship that they had built,Sloepie, at their original destination ofBatavia in theDutch East Indies (nowJakarta inIndonesia).
May 16 – SaintMargaret of Cortona, the patron saint of the falsely accused, homeless people and mental illness sufferers, is canonized.
May 25 –Pope Gregory VII (Hildebrand of Sovana), who served as pontiff from 1073 to 1085, is canonized as a Roman Catholic saint.
May 31 –The Royal Bank of Scotland invents theoverdraft, allowingEdinburgh merchant William Hogg cash credit (in the amount of £1,000) for his creditors to be paid by the bank until Hogg receives expected revenue to repay the amount owed, plus interest.[1]
June 14 – TheCongress of Soissons opens at the French town ofSoissons to negotiate a treaty betweenGreat Britain andSpain.[2] The treaty, which is concluded on November 9, 1729, recognizes the Spanish royal family's rule of parts of Italy, and Britain's possession ofGibraltar andMenorca.
July 17 – At the age of 8, Prince Teruhito, son ofEmperor Nakamikado, is named as the Crown Prince of Japan. Teruhito becomes theEmperor Sakuramachi at age 15, upon his father's death.
July 18 – After a reign of only four months,Abdalmalik is deposed asSultan of Morocco by his half-brotherAhmad ad Dahabi, whom he had deposed on March 13. Abdalmalik is later captured and executed on March 2, 1729.
August 16 – Because of advancing Arctic ice, theFirst Kamchatka Expedition turns around afterVitus Bering concludes (inaccurately) that it had reached the easternmost point of Russia and Asia, and fails to spot the coast of Alaska because of the weather.
September 15 – Persian physicianMohammad Mehdi ibn Ali Naqi completesZad al-musafirin, his treatise for travelers to Persia on preservation of their health. He notes the date as a postscript in his manual.[3]
^Abel Boyer,The Political State of Great Britain, Volume XXXV, Containing the Months of January, February, March, April, May, and June, MDCCXXVIII (1728) p565
^Lutz Richter-Bernburg,Persian Medical Manuscripts at the University of California, Los Angeles: A Descriptive Catalogue (Malibu: Udena Publications, 1978) p. 155
^Old Fort William in Bengal: A Selection of Official Documents Dealing with Its History, ed. by C. R. Wilson (Government of India, 1906) p. 127
^Delambre, J. B. (1827).Histoire de l'astronomie au dix-huitième siècle. Paris: Bachelier.
