24 February 1728ConventionRobert Walpole Orford, 1st
Provides for an Anglo-Spanish truce
Historical records for Great Britain in 1728, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Provides for an Anglo-Spanish truce
Disenfrachises the Irish Roman Catholics
Birth of William Wilberforce
Birth of Matthew Boulton, later central to Birmingham’s industrial growth.
Birth of James Cook
Blockades Cadiz
Wager maintains naval pressure on Cadiz to restrict Spanish warships and shipping using the port.
A violent attack of gout compels Pitt to leave Oxford University without finishing his degree
From 1728 to 1730 Pitt attends Utrecht University in the Dutch Republic
In order to remove him from the Commons, Walpole raised Compton to the peerage as Baron Wilmington
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