1720

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Events

• 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 colonisation
• Edmond Halley appointed 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.

January

• January 6 - The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings

February

• 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.

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September

October

November

• November 16 - Pirate Jack Rackham is brought to trial at St. Jago de la Vega in Jamaica.

December

Ongoing events

• Great Northern War (1700-1721)

Births

• 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)

Deaths

• January 31 - Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford, English privy councillor (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)
• 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