1720
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| Decades: | 1690s 1700s 1710s - 1720s - 1730s 1740s 1750s |
| Years: | 1717 1718 1719 - 1720 - 1721 1722 1723 |
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| Art - Literature (Poetry) - Music - Science |
| Countries: Canada - Great Britain - Mexico |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
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| Births - Deaths - Works |
Year 1720 (MDCCXX) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Friday [1] of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.
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[edit] Events of 1720
[edit] January - June
- January 6 - The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings.
- February 11 - Sweden and Prussia sign the (Treaty of Stockholm (Great Northern War)).
- February 17 - Spain signs the Treaty of The Hague, ending the War of the Quadruple Alliance.
- February 29 - Queen Ulrike Eleonora of Sweden resigns to let her husband Frederick I take over as king of Sweden.
[edit] July - December
- September - South Sea Bubble: The English stock market crashes with dropping prices for stock in The South Sea Company, an English company granted a monopoly to trade with South America.
- November 16 - Pirate Jack Rackham is brought to trial at St. Jago de la Vega in Jamaica.
[edit] Undated
- The Town on Queen Anne's Creek, North Carolina is renamed Edenton in honor of North Carolina Governor Charles Eden. It is later incorporated in 1722.
- The Tuscarora flees North Carolina as a result of European colonization.
- Edmond Halley is appointed as Astronomer Royal.
- The Academia Real da Historia is founded in Lisbon, Portugal.
- Jonathan Swift begins Gulliver's Travels.
- Emperor Kangxi announces that all western businessmen can only trade in Guangzhou.
- Il teatro alla moda, a satirical pamphlet by Benedetto Marcello, is published anonymously in Venice.
- John Woolman Started his Journal
- The first yacht club in the world, the Royal Cork Yacht Club, is founded.
[edit] Ongoing events
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1720 MDCCXX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2473 |
| Armenian calendar | 1169 ԹՎ ՌՃԿԹ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -124 – -123 |
| Berber calendar | 2670 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2264 |
| Burmese calendar | 1082 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7228 – 7229 |
| Chinese calendar | 己亥年十一月廿二日 (4356/4416-11-22) — to —
庚子年十二月初三日(4357/4417-12-3) |
| Coptic calendar | 1436 – 1437 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1712 – 1713 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5480 – 5481 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1775 – 1776 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1642 – 1643 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4821 – 4822 |
| Holocene calendar | 11720 |
| Iranian calendar | 1098 – 1099 |
| Islamic calendar | 1132 – 1133 |
| Japanese calendar | Kyōhō 5 (享保5年) |
| Korean calendar | 4053 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2263 |
- January 4 - Johann Friedrich Agricola, German composer (d. 1774)
- January 13 - Richard Hurd, English bishop and writer (d. 1808)
- January 27 - Samuel Foote, English dramatist and actor (d. 1777)
- January 30 - Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist and entomologist (d. 1778)
- February 8 - Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1750)
- March 9 - Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician (d. 1790)
- March 13 - Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist and writer (d. 1793)
- March 22 - Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect (d. 1799)
- April 23 - Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi (d. 1797)
- May 11 - Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German officer and adventurer (d. 1797)
- May 15 - Maximilian Hell, Slovakian astronomer (d. 1792)
- July 18 - Gilbert White, English naturalist and cleric (d. 1793)
- August 8 - Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish politician (d. 1796)
- August 12 - Konrad Ekhof, German actor (d. 1778)
- August 18 - Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English murderer (d. 1760)
- August 30 - Samuel Whitbread, English brewer and politician (d. 1796)
- October 3 - Johann Peter Uz, German poet (d. 1796)
- October 4 - Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist (d. 1778)
- October 8 - Jonathan Mayhew, American minister and patriot (d. 1766)
- October 19 - John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist (d. 1772)
- November 1 - Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (d. 1791)
- November 16 - Carlo Antonio Campioni, French-born composer (d. 1788)
- December 14 - Justus Möser, German statesman (d. 1794)
- December 26 - Gian Francesco Albani, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1803)
- December 31 - Charles Edward Stuart, pretender to the British throne (d. 1788)
- See also Category: 1720 births.
[edit] Deaths
- January - Francis Daniel Pastorius, founder of Germanstown, Pennsylvania (b. 1651)
- January 31 - Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford, English privy councilor (b. c.1645)
- February 27 - Samuel Parris, English-born Puritan minister (b. 1653)
- March 29 - Charles Vane, English pirate
- April 2 - Joseph Dudley, colonial Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1647)
- April 21 - Antoine Hamilton, French writer (b. 1646)
- June 27 - Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu, French poet (b. 1639)
- August 3
- Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch statesman (b. 1641)
- Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, English poet (b. 1661)
- August 9 - Simon Ockley, English orientalist (b. 1678)
- August 17 - Anne Lefèvre, French scholar (b. 1654)
- September 3 - Henri de Massue, Marquis de Ruvigny, 1st Viscount Galway, French soldier and diplomat (b. 1648)
- October 10 - Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor (b. 1640)
- November 17 - John Rackham, English pirate, also known as Calico Jack
- November 20 - Peder Tordenskjold, Norwegian naval hero (b. 1691)
- Shahzada Assadullah Khan Abdali, Persian Governor of Herat (b. 1687)
- See also Category: 1720 deaths.
[edit] Notes
- ^ "Calendar in year 1720 (Russia)" (full Julian calendar), webpage: Julian-1720 (Russia used the Julian calendar until 1919).
