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)
BirthsJanuary 4 - Johann Friedrich Agricola, composer (died 1774)May 11 - Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, 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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