1720

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century
Decades: 1690s  1700s  1710s  - 1720s -  1730s  1740s  1750s
Years: 1717 1718 1719 - 1720 - 1721 1722 1723
1720 in topic:
Subjects:     Archaeology - Architecture -
Art - Literature (Poetry) - Music - Science
Countries:   Canada - Great Britain -
Leaders:   State leaders - Colonial governors
Category: Establishments - Disestablishments
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.

Events of 1720

January - June

• 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.

July - December

• July 12 - The Lords Justice of the UK attempt to curb some of the excesses of the stock markets during the South Sea bubble. They dissolved a number of petitions for patents and charters, and abolished more than 80 joint-stock companies of dubious merit. According to Charles MacKay, this had little effect on the creation of "Bubbles", ephemeral joint-stock companies created during the hysteria of the times.[2]
• 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.

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 flee 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.
• The first yacht club in the world, the Royal Cork Yacht Club, is founded.

Ongoing events

• Great Northern War (1700-1721).

Births

1720 in other calendars 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) 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.

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.

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