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

* 1720 – Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish politician ( d. 1796 )

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

At the end of the 17th century, a new influx of French Huguenot craftsmen went to London, but marquetry in England had little appeal in the anti-French, more Chinese-inspired high-style English furniture ( mis-called ' Queen Anne ') after ca 1720.

He was then granted the title Prince of Sweden, with the style Royal Highness by the estates, and was prince consort there during Ulrika Eleonora's rule as Queen regnant from 1718 until her abdication in 1720.

Ulrika Eleonora or Ulrica Eleanor ( 23 January 1688 – 24 November 1741 ), also known as Ulrika Eleonora the Younger, was Queen regnant of Sweden from 5 December 1718 to 29 February 1720, and then Queen consort until her death.

A two-handled silver cup and cover by Paul de Lamerie, dated 1720, was among the wedding gifts of Queen Elizabeth II.

** Min Jin-hu ( Hangul: 민진후, Hanja: 閔鎭厚 ) ( 1659 – 1720 ), eldest brother of Queen Inhyeon ( second consort of King Sukjong ).

The Baule Empire that rosed up from 1720 between the Bandama and the Comoe Rivers was the result of Family feud that arose between the then Queen Mother of Asante Nana Abenaa Pokua during the death of Nana Osei Tutu I and Her GrandNephew Nana Opoku Ware I who assassinated his Grand Uncle Nana Darko, the brother of Nana Abena Pokua.

Nana Opoku Ware was entooled as Asantehene and his mother Nana Nyarko Kusi Amoa, the niece of Nana Abena Pokua was also entooled as the Queen mother of Asante in 1720.

Sweden has been ruled by queens regnant on three separate occasions: by Margaret ( 1389 – 1412 ), Christina ( 1632 – 1654 ) and Ulrika Eleonora ( 1718 – 1720 ) respectively.

Early in 1720 Charles XII's sister, Ulrika Eleonora, who had been elected queen of Sweden immediately after his death, was permitted to abdicate in favour of her husband Frederick the prince of Hesse, who was elected king 1720 under the title of Frederick I of Sweden ; and Sweden was, at the same time, converted into the most limited of monarchies.

* Louisa Ulrika of Prussia ( 1720 – 1782 ), daughter of Frederick William I of Prussia and wife of Adolf Frederick of Sweden

* Louisa Ulrika of Prussia, ( 1720 – 1781 ), widow of King Adolf Frederick of Sweden.

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

The Gottorp party succumbed and Ulrike Eleonora, wife of Frederick I, transferred power to her husband in May 1720.

Members of the family served as Dukes, Electors and Kings of Bavaria ( 1180 – 1918 ), Counts Palatine of the Rhine ( 1214 – 1803 and 1816 – 1918 ), Margraves of Brandenburg ( 1323 – 1373 ), Counts of Holland, Hainaut and Zeeland ( 1345 – 1432 ), Elector-Archbishops of Cologne ( 1583 – 1761 ), Dukes of Jülich and Berg ( 1614 – 1794 / 1806 ), Kings of Sweden ( 1441 – 1448 and 1654 – 1720 ) and Dukes of Bremen-Verden ( 1654 – 1719 ).

Between 1570 and 1800 Sweden experienced two periods of urban expansion, c. 1580-1690 and in the mid-18th century, separated by relative stagnation from the 1690s to about 1720.

The Russians returned again in 1720 and 1721 although the presence of a British naval squadron limited the extent of the raids ( after making peace with Sweden in 1719, the British had switched over to an anti-Russian policy in the Baltic ).

Hanover-Great Britain and Brandenburg-Prussia thereupon negotiated separate peace treaties with Sweden, the treaties of Stockholm in 1719 and early 1720, which partitioned Sweden's northern German dominions among the parties.

Usedom was annexed by Sweden after the war for almost a century, until in 1720 it was sold for 2 million thalers to the Prussian king Frederick William I.

Frederick I,, ( 17 April 1676 – 25 March 1751 ) was a prince consort of Sweden from 1718 to 1720, and a King of Sweden from 1720 until his death and ( as Frederick I ) also Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel from 1730.

* Timeline of 1700 – 1720 in Sweden

The Kingdom of Prussia gained the area in 1720 from Sweden, and included it in her Pomeranian province.

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 Treaty of Frederiksborg or Copenhagen on 3 July 1720 peace was also signed between Denmark and Sweden, Denmark retroceding Rügen, Further Pomerania as far as the Peene, and Wismar to Sweden, in exchange for an indemnity of 600, 000 Riksdaler, while Sweden relinquished her exemption from the Sound tolls and her protectorate over Holstein-Gottorp.