1720

Year 1720 () was a (link will display the full calendar) of the  (or a of the 11-day slower.

January - June

 * - The Committee of Inquiry on the publishes its findings.
 * - and  sign the  declaring peace.
 * - signs the, ending the.
 * - Queen resigns to let her husband  take over as king of Sweden.

July - December

 * September - : The English stock market crashes with dropping prices for stock in, an English company granted a monopoly to trade with.
 * - Pirate is brought to trial at St. Jago de la Vega in.

Undated

 * The Town on Queen Anne's Creek, is renamed  in honor of North Carolina Governor .  It is later incorporated in.


 * The fled  as a result of European colonization.
 * appointed as.
 * The is founded in,.
 * begins.
 * announced that all western businessmen could only trade in.
 * , satirical pamphlet by, published anonymously in.

Births

 * -, German composer (died )
 * -, English bishop and writer (died )
 * -, English dramatist and actor (died )
 * -, Swedish industrialist and entomologist (died )
 * - (died )
 * -, English politician (died )
 * -, Swiss naturalist and writer (died )
 * -, French architect (died )
 * -, Lithuanian rabbi (died )
 * -, German officer and adventurer (died )
 * -, Slovakian astronomer (died )
 * -, English naturalist and cleric (died )
 * -, Swedish politician (died )
 * -, German actor (died )
 * -, English murderer (died )
 * -, English brewer and politician (died )
 * -, German poet (died )
 * -, Italian artist (died )
 * -, American minister and patriot (died )
 * -, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist (died )
 * -, French admiral (died )
 * -, French-born composer (died )
 * -, German statesman (died )
 * -, Italian Catholic cardinal (died )
 * -, pretender to the British throne (died )


 * See also .

Deaths

 * January -, founder of (born )
 * -, English privy councilor (born c.)
 * -, English-born Puritan minister (born )
 * -, colonial Governor of Massachusetts (born )
 * -, French writer (born )
 * -, French poet (born )
 * , Dutch statesman (born )
 * , English poet (born )
 * -, English orientalist (born )
 * -, French scholar (born )
 * -, French soldier and diplomat (born )
 * -, French sculptor (born )
 * -, English pirate
 * -, Norwegian naval hero (born )
 * Shahzada Assadullah Khan Abdali, Persian Governor of Herat (born )
 * Shahzada Assadullah Khan Abdali, Persian Governor of Herat (born )


 * See also .