1720

This article is about the year 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 by topic:

Arts and Sciences

Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science

Countries

Canada – Great Britain –

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors – State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1720 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1720 MDCCXX
Ab urbe condita	2473
Armenian calendar	1169 ԹՎ ՌՃԿԹ
Assyrian calendar	6470
Bahá'í calendar	-124–-123
Bengali calendar	1127
Berber calendar	2670
British Regnal year	6 Geo. 1 – 7 Geo. 1
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	1776–1777
- 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
Minguo calendar	192 before ROC 民前192年
Thai solar calendar	2263

Year 1720 (MDCCXX) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

Events

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.
• 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.

Date unknown

• 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.

Births

• 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)

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)
• 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)
• date unknown – Shahzada Assadullah Khan Abdali, Persian Governor of Herat (b. 1687)