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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 ...
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.
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.
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).
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 ...
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 ...
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.
In 1897, a more systematic use of the phrase "Golden Age of Piracy" was introduced by historian John Fiske, who wrote, "At no other time in the world's history has the business of piracy thriven so greatly as in the seventeenth century and the first part of the eighteenth. Its golden age may be said to have extended from about 1650 to about 1720."