1720 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1720?
- January 21, 1720 – Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Stockholm.
- February 29, 1720 – Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden abdicates in favour of her husband, who becomes King Frederick I.
- July 27, 1720 – The Battle of Grengam marks the second important victory of the Russian Navy.
- October 20, 1720 – Caribbean pirate Calico Jack is captured by the Royal Navy.
- November 9, 1720 – The synagogue of Yehudah he-Hasid is burned down by Arab creditors, leading to the expulsion of the Ashkenazim from Jerusalem.
Who Were Born In The Year 1720?
- January 4, 1720 – Johann Friedrich Agricola, German composer (d. 1774)
- January 13, 1720 – Richard Hurd, English bishop and writer (d. 1808)
- February 8, 1720 – Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1750)
- February 26, 1720 – Gian Francesco Albani, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1803)
- March 9, 1720 – Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician (d. 1790)
- March 13, 1720 – Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist and writer (d. 1793)
- March 22, 1720 – Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect (d. 1799)
- April 23, 1720 – Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi (d. 1797)
- May 11, 1720 – Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German adventurer (d. 1797)
- July 18, 1720 – Gilbert White, English ornithologist (d. 1793)
- August 8, 1720 – Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish politician (d. 1796)
- August 12, 1720 – Konrad Ekhof, German actor (d. 1778)
- August 18, 1720 – Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English murderer (d. 1760)
- October 4, 1720 – Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist (d. 1778)
- October 8, 1720 – Jonathan Mayhew, American minister (d. 1766)
- October 19, 1720 – John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist (d. 1772)
- November 1, 1720 – Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (d. 1791)
- November 16, 1720 – Carlo Antonio Campioni, Italian composer (d. 1788)
- December 14, 1720 – Justus Möser, German statesman (d. 1794)
- December 31, 1720 – Charles Edward Stuart, pretender to the British throne (d. 1788)
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