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1720 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1720th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 720th year of the 2nd millennium, the 20th year of the 18th century, and the 1st year of the 1720s decade. As of the start of 1720, the ...
The 1720s decade ran from January 1, 1720, to December 31, 1729. In Europe it was a decade of comparative peace following a lengthy period of near continuous warfare with treaties ending the War of the Quadruple Alliance and the Great Northern War.
1720 – New France builds Fort Niagara. Slaves become the majority of the population in South Carolina. Slaves become the majority of the population in South Carolina. 1723 – Colony of Virginia passes an act to deal with slave conspiracies.
1773–1775: Pugachev's Rebellion, the largest peasant revolt in Russian history. 1773: East India Company starts operations in Bengal to smuggle opium into China. 1773: 16 December, the Boston Tea Party. 1775: John Harrison H4 and Larcum Kendall K1 marine chronometers are used to measure longitude by James Cook on his second voyage (1772–1775).
1720–1722 France Bubonic plague: 100,000+ [98] 1721 Boston smallpox outbreak: 1721–1722 Massachusetts Bay Colony: Smallpox: 844 [99] 1730 Cádiz yellow fever epidemic 1730 Cádiz, Spain Yellow fever: 2,200 [100] 1732–1733 Thirteen Colonies influenza epidemic 1732–1733 Thirteen Colonies: Influenza: Unknown [101] 1733 New France smallpox ...
Literature in the European sense was nearly nonexistent, with histories being far more noteworthy. These included The History and present State of Virginia (1705) by Robert Beverly and History of the Dividing Line (1728–29) by William Byrd, which was not published until a century later. Instead, the newspaper was the principal form of reading ...
View of the camp of John Law at Biloxi, December 1720. The Mississippi Company (French: Compagnie du Mississippi; founded 1684, named the Company of the West from 1717, and the Company of the Indies from 1719 [1]) was a corporation holding a business monopoly in French colonies in North America and the West Indies.
Major conflicts of this era include the Italian Wars and Thirty Years' War in Europe, the Kongo Civil War in Africa, the Qing conquest of the Ming in Asia, the Spanish conquest of Peru in South America, and the American Revolutionary War in North America.