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Template:C18YearInTopicX 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.

Contents 1 Events of 1720 1.1 January - June 1.2 July - December 1.3 Undated 1.4 Ongoing events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Notes

[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)) declaring peace.
• 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 fled North Carolina as a result of European colonization.
• Edmond Halley appointed as Astronomer Royal.
• The Academia Real da Historia is founded in Lisbon, Portugal.
• Jonathan Swift begins Gulliver's Travels.
• Emperor Kangxi announced that all western businessmen could only trade in Guangzhou.
• Il teatro alla moda, satirical pamphlet by Benedetto Marcello, published anonymously in Venice.

[edit] Ongoing events

• Great Northern War (1700-1721).

[edit] Births

1720 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1720 MDCCXX
Ab urbe condita	2473
Armenian calendar	1169 ԹՎ ՌՃԿԹ
Bahá'í calendar	-124 – -123
Buddhist calendar	2264
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)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2380 (皇紀2380年)
Julian calendar	1765
Korean calendar	4053
Thai solar calendar	2263
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• January 4 - Johann Friedrich Agricola, German composer (died 1774)
• January 13 - Richard Hurd, English bishop and writer (died 1808)
• January 27 - Samuel Foote, English dramatist and actor (died 1777)
• January 30 - Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist and entomologist (died 1778)
• February 8 - Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (died 1750)
• March 9 - Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician (died 1790)
• March 13 - Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist and writer (died 1793)
• March 22 - Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect (died 1799)
• April 23 - Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi (died 1797)
• May 11 - Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German officer and adventurer (died 1797)
• May 15 - Maximilian Hell, Slovakian astronomer (died 1792)
• July 18 - Gilbert White, English naturalist and cleric (died 1793)
• August 8 - Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish politician (died 1796)
• August 12 - Konrad Ekhof, German actor (died 1778)
• August 18 - Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English murderer (died 1760)
• August 30 - Samuel Whitbread, English brewer and politician (died 1796)
• October 3 - Johann Peter Uz, German poet (died 1796)
• October 4 - Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist (died 1778)
• October 8 - Jonathan Mayhew, American minister and patriot (died 1766)
• October 19 - John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist (died 1772)
• November 1 - Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (died 1791)
• November 16 - Carlo Antonio Campioni, French-born composer (died 1788)
• December 14 - Justus Möser, German statesman (died 1794)
• December 26 - Gian Francesco Albani, Italian Catholic cardinal (died 1803)
• December 31 - Charles Edward Stuart, pretender to the British throne (died 1788)

See also :Category: 1720 births.

[edit] Deaths

• January - Francis Daniel Pastorius, founder of Germanstown, Pennsylvania (born 1651)
• January 31 - Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford, English privy councilor (born c.1645)
• February 27 - Samuel Parris, English-born Puritan minister (born 1653)
• April 2 - Joseph Dudley, colonial Governor of Massachusetts (born 1647)
• April 21 - Antoine Hamilton, French writer (born 1646)
• June 27 - Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu, French poet (born 1639)
• August 3
  • Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch statesman (born 1641)
  • Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, English poet (born 1661)
• August 9 - Simon Ockley, English orientalist (born 1678)
• August 17 - Anne Lefèvre, French scholar (born 1654)
• September 3 - Henri de Massue, Marquis de Ruvigny, 1st Viscount Galway, French soldier and diplomat (born 1648)
• October 10 - Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor (born 1640)
• November 17 - Calico Jack, English pirate
• November 20 - Peder Tordenskjold, Norwegian naval hero (born 1691)
• Shahzada Assadullah Khan Abdali, Persian Governor of Herat (born 1687)

See also :Category: 1720 deaths.

[edit] Notes

1. ^ "Calendar in year 1720 (Russia)" (full Julian calendar), webpage: Julian-1720 (Russia used the Julian calendar until 1919).

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