* 1720 – Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch statesman ( b. 1641 )

* 1720 – Konrad Ekhof, German actor ( d. 1778 )

* 1720 – Samuel Whitbread, English politician and brewer, founded Whitbread ( d. 1796 )

* 1792 – Maximilian Hell, Hungarian astronomer ( b. 1720 )

* 1720 – 1742 Edmond Halley

* 1648 – Jeremiah Shepard, American minister ( d. 1720 )

* 1769 – Chief Pontiac, Ottawa leader ( b. 1720 )

* 1720 – Antoine Hamilton, French writer ( b. 1646 )

* Two poets, Johann Peter Uz ( 1720 – 1796 ) and August von Platen-Hallermünde ( 1790 – 1835 ), were also born there.

French earthenware tray and board game, 1720 – 50

There is some controversy over the identity of the disease, but in its virulent form, after the Great Plague of Marseille in 1720 – 1722, the Great Plague of 1738 ( which hit Eastern Europe ), and the Russian plague of 1770-1772, it seems to have gradually disappeared from Europe.

During the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion, Hume tutored the Marquis of Annandale ( 1720 – 92 ), who was officially described as a " lunatic ".

Three of five siblings survived to adulthood, Denise Diderot ( 1715 – 1797 ) and their youngest brother Pierre-Didier Diderot ( 1722 – 1787 ), and finally their sister Angélique Diderot ( 1720 – 1749 ).

* 1774 – Johann Friedrich Agricola, German composer and organist ( b. 1720 )

* 1720 – Justus Möser, German statesman ( d. 1794 )

* 1720 – Carlo Gozzi, Italian dramatist ( d. 1804 )

An exception is the 1789 publication Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White ( 1720 – 1793 ), considered by some to be one of the earliest texts on ecology.

* Sir George Gordon, 3rd Baronet ( 1637 – 1720 ) ( created Earl of Aberdeen in 1682 )

* George Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen ( 1637 – 1720 )

* 1720 – Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden abdicates in favour of her husband, who becomes King Frederick I.

* 1720 – Gian Francesco Albani, Italian Catholic cardinal ( d. 1803 )

* May 29 – Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish politician ( b. 1720 )

Hieronymus Carl Friedrich von Münchhausen (; 11 May 1720 – 22 February 1797 ) was a German nobleman and a famous recounter of tall tales.

Balthasar Neumann, architect of the court of the Bishop of Würzburg, was the principal architect of the Residenz, which was commissioned by the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg Johann Philipp Franz von Schönborn and his brother Friedrich Carl von Schönborn in 1720, and completed in 1744.

The church has also been used as the knight's chapel for the Order of the Elephant and the Order of the Dannebrog since 1693 ; housed the Danish royal family's art collection, notably works on the life of Jesus by Danish painter Carl Heinrich Bloch ; and was the site of the 1720 Treaty of Frederiksborg.

According to her second surviving son, Carl Philipp Emanuel, Maria Barbara's death in 1720 came quickly and unexpectedly: J. S. Bach was accompanying his employer, the Duke of Köthen, as the duke went to take the waters at the Carlsbad spa ( the Duke brought his musicians along to provide him with entertainment ).

Baron Carl Fredrik Pechlin ( August 8, 1720 – May 29, 1796 ) was a Swedish politician and demagogue, son of the Holstein minister at Stockholm, Johan Pechlin.

Citadellet Fort was built in the 1680s by count Fredrik Gyldenløve and had an important role during the last Nordic war from 1709 to 1720.

* 1720 – Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist and entomologist ( d. 1778 )

* March 7 – Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist and entomologist ( b. 1720 )

He was not able to keep northern Swedish Pomerania, Danish from 1715 to 1720.

The southern parts of the town were ceded to the Kingdom of Prussia by the peace of Stockholm in 1720, while the smaller section north of the Peene River remained Swedish.

In 1720 the southern parts of Swedish Pomerania with the town of Stettin and the islands of Usedom and Wollin were ceded to the Kingdom of Prussia, following the Great Northern War.

The hopes of the Swedish Hats party to recover territories lost to Prussia in 1720 were thwarted, and the unpopular and costly war contributed to their subsequent downfall.

The main cause for the Swedish intervention in the Seven Years ' War was that the Hats faction then in power in Sweden believed Frederick II of Prussia would succumb to his many enemies, thus affording Sweden a risk-free opportunity to recapture its possessions in Pomerania that it had ceded to Prussia in 1720, towards the end of the Great Northern War.

By the Treaties of Stockholm on February 20, 1719 and February 1, 1720 Hanover and obtained the Duchies of Bremen and Verden for herself and Southern Swedish Pomerania with Stettin for her confederate Brandenburg-Prussia.

She took the precaution, however, of concluding a fresh secret alliance with Denmark, in which the Swedish revolution was significantly described as " an act of violence " constituting a casus foederis, and justifying both powers in seizing the first favourable opportunity for intervention to restore the Swedish constitution of 1720.

The largest cities in Swedish Pomerania were Stralsund, Greifswald and, until 1720, Stettin ( now Szczecin ).

In the course of the Pomeranian campaign and by the Prusso-Swedish Treaty of Stockholm ( January 1720 ), Prussia gained southern Swedish Pomerania with Stettin ( Szczecin ).

In 1712 he was made colonel in the Swedish army and in 1720 was made a baron and in 1739 a member of the Riksrad ( Council of the Kingdom ).

From the Treaty of Stettin ( 1630 ) until the Treaty of Stockholm ( 1720 ), Pölitz was part of Swedish Pomerania, and of Prussian Pomerania thereafter.

According to the 1720 Treaty of Frederiksborg Swedish support for Gottorp ceased, making it impossible for the dukes to regain their lost territories in Schleswig and prolonging their feud with the king of Denmark.

The last Swedish monarch to use the title was Ulrika Eleonora who abdicated in 1720.

On 21 January 1720, Sweden ceded Swedish Pomerania south of the river Peene and east of the river Peenestrom to Prussia, including the islands of Usedom and Wollin, and the towns of Stettin ( Szczecin ), Damm and Gollnow.

The parts of Swedish Pomerania that were to remain with Sweden were then under Danish occupation, and were restored to Sweden in the Treaty of Frederiksborg on 3 July 1720.

Prussia gained the southern parts of Swedish Pomerania in 1720 ,.

A large cast iron Swedish gun dating to 1690 – 1720 has been found in the estuary.

The 1772 Constitution replaced the Swedish Constitution of 1720 ( which was fundamentally similar to the 1719 Constitution ) and was in turn replaced by the 1809 Instrument of Government following the defeat in the Finnish War and the removal of King Gustav IV Adolf from the throne.

The first claimed victories of the Russian Navy were the Gangut ( Swedish: Hangöudd ) in 1714 and, arguably, the Grengam ( Swedish: Ledsund ) in 1720.