Editing 1728 (section)

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 14]] &ndash; Saint [[Serapion of Algiers]], the first Mercedarian (of the  [[Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy]]) is canonized by [[Pope Benedict XIII]].
* [[April 29]] &ndash; [[John Essington (MP for New Romney)|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]] &ndash; The 82 survivors of the wreckage of the Dutch East India Company frigate [[Zeewijk (1725)|''Zeewijk'']] arrive in the new ship that they had built, ''Sloepie'', at their original destination of [[Batavia, Dutch East Indies|Batavia]] in the [[Dutch East Indies]] (now [[Jakarta]] in [[Indonesia]]).
* [[May 16]] &ndash; Saint [[Margaret of Cortona]], the patron saint of the falsely accused, homeless people and mental illness sufferers, is canonized.
* [[May 25]] &ndash; [[Pope Gregory VII]] (Hildebrand of Sovana), who served as pontiff from 1073 to 1085, is canonized as a Roman Catholic saint.
* [[May 31]] &ndash; [[The Royal Bank of Scotland]] invents the [[overdraft]], allowing [[Edinburgh]] 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.<ref>{{cite news|title=The history of payments in the UK|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7839823.stm|work=[[BBC News]]|date=2009-02-16|access-date=2016-02-25}}</ref>
* [[June 14]] &ndash; The [[Congress of Soissons]] opens at the French town of [[Soissons]] to negotiate a treaty between [[Great Britain]] and [[Spain]].  <ref>[[Abel Boyer]], ''The Political State of Great Britain, Volume XXXV, Containing the Months of January, February, March, April, May, and June, MDCCXXVIII'' (1728) p565</ref>  The treaty, which is concluded on November 9, 1729, recognizes the Spanish royal family's rule of parts of Italy, and Britain's possession of [[Gibraltar]] and [[Menorca]].  
* [[June 25]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Kyakhta]] is signed at the border city of [[Kyakhta]], between [[Imperial Russia|Russia]] and [[Qing Empire|China]], by representatives of the [[Peter II of Russia|Tsar Peter II]], and the Emperor [[Yongzheng Emperor|Yongzheng]].