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1729| 1716–1745 | Japan [political events] | Yoshimune, of the Tokugawa house of Kii, succeeds Ienobu as shogun (military ruler) of Japan. | | 29 May 1724 - 21 February 1730 | Italy [elections] | Pietro Francesco Vincenzo Maria Orsini, eldest son of the Duke of Gravina, is elected Pope Benedict XIII, after the death on 7 March of Pope Innocent XIII. | | c. 1725–c. 1740 | Spain [sports] | Bullfighting grows in popularity in Spain, with Francisco Romero becoming the first famous matador. | | 1729 | North America [Judaism] | Jews in New York City establish the first permanent congregation of the Jewish religion in North America. By the time of the American Revolution, between two and three thousand Jews have settled in the colonies, where they find greater religious freedom than anywhere else. | | 1729 | Ireland, England [literature and language] | The Irish churchman and writer Jonathan Swift publishes A Modest Proposal, a savage satire suggesting that poverty in Ireland could be remedied if children were reared to be eaten. | | c. 1729 | Italy [painting] | Italian artist Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) paints The Rialto Bridge from the South. | | 12 January 1729 | Ireland, UK [births and deaths] | Edmund Burke, British statesman and political theorist, born in Dublin, Ireland (–1797). | | 2 May 1729 | Russian Empire, Prussia [births and deaths] | Catherine the Great, German-born empress of Russia 1762–96 who brings Russia into the political and cultural life of Europe, born in Szczecin, Prussia (–1796). | | November 1729 | Spain, France, UK [treaties] | The Treaty of Seville between Spain, France, and Britain weans Spain away from its alliance with the Habsburg Monarchy; it provides for the suppression of the Austrian East India Company and for the accession of Don Carlos, the eldest son of King Philip V of Spain and Elizabeth Farnese, to Parma and Tuscany, and is subsequently joined on 10 November by the United Netherlands. |
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