1720
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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
Births
- January 4 – Johann Friedrich Agricola, German composer (d. 1774)
- February 8 – Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (d. [[1750
- May 11 – Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German officer and adventurer (d. 1797)
- July 18 – Gilbert White, English naturalist and cleric (d. 1793)
- October 4 – Giambattista Piranesi, Italian architect
- December 31 – Bonnie Prince Charlie, pretender to the throne of Great Britain (d.1788)
Deaths
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