Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index This article is about the year 1729 AD. For the number, see One thousand seven hundred and twenty nine. Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century Decades: 1670s 1680s 1690s 1700s 1710s - 1720s - 1730s 1740s 1750s 1760s 1770s Years: 1724 1725 1726 1727 1728 - 1729 - 1730 1731 1732 1733 1734 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. Births January 12 - Edmund Burke, statesman, philosopher January 22 - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, author and philosopher (+ 1781) May 2 - Catherine the Great of Russia Deaths January 19 - William Congreve, English playwright May 17 - Samuel Clarke, English philosopher\n This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.