1720

Events

• January 6 - The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings
• February 11 - Sweden and Prussia sign the (2nd Treaty of Stockholm) declaring peace.
• February 29 - Queen Ulrike Eleonora of Sweden resigns.
• The Tuscarora fled North Carolina as a result of European colonisation
• Edmond Halley appointed Astronomer Royal
• The Academia Real da Historia is founded in Lisbon, Portugal
• Jonathan Swift begins Gulliver's Travels

Ongoing events

• Great Northern War (1700-1721)

Births

• January 4 - Johann Friedrich Agricola, composer (died 1774)
• May 11 - Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Mnchhausen, officer and adventurer (died 1797)
• July 18 - Gilbert White, English naturalist and cleric (died 1793)
• October 4 - Giambattista Piranesi, Italian architect
• December 31 - Bonnie Prince Charlie of Great Britain, later leader of Jacobitism (died 1788)
• Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan

Deaths

• (Buried July 7) - Maria Barbara Bach, first wife of Johann Sebastian Bach

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