* Sherwood Forest, c. 1720, Charles City County — home of John Tyler

Duhaut was killed to avenge La Salle, while Jean L ' Archevêque was killed in 1720 by Indians during the Villasur expedition — ironically, in an ambush beside a river.

This era ended in northern Mesopotamia with the expulsion of the Amorite dominated Babylonians from Assyria by king Adasi circa 1720 BC, and in the south with the Hittite sack of Babylon ( c. 1595 BC ) which brought new ethnic groups — particularly Kassites — to the forefront in southern Mesopotamia.

* 1720 — First brick house

The first American settlement of the Amish Mennonites — who separated from the main body of Swiss Brethren and followed Jacob Amman — was in Berks County, Pennsylvania, around 1710 – 1720.

The gate of the homestead — built after the year 1720 by Giovanni Santini or his descendants, is now the property of an agricultural company, and intensively modified.

Heraclius II () ( November 7, 1720, or October 7, 1721 to Cyril Toumanoff | C. Toumanoff — January 11, 1798 ) was a Georgian monarch of the Bagrationi Dynasty, reigning as the king of Kakheti from 1744 to 1762, and of Kartli and Kakheti from 1762 until 1798.

* 1720 — Eruption in Soldão, Lajes do Pico on July 10

* 1720 — Eruption in Banco D. João de Castro

* Chickasaw Wars ( 1720 – 1760 ) — Unsuccessful campaign by French and Choctaw against the Chickasaw

* Battle of Grengam ( 1720 ) — was fought on the same day six years later and marked the end of Swedish supremacy in the Baltic waters ;

Edmund Halley ( 1720 ) and Jean-Philippe de Cheseaux ( 1744 ) noted independently that the assumption of an infinite space filled uniformly with stars would lead to the prediction that the nighttime sky would be as bright as the sun itself ; this became known as Olbers ' paradox in the 19th century.

* 1720 / 21 William Robinson Edmund Wildbore

* 1720 – 1742 Edmond Halley

After the end of the Spanish period following the European wars of the early 18th century, the brief period of Austrian rule ( 1708 – 1717 ) was succeeded by domination by the Piemontese, who then took over the Title of Kingdom of Sardinia ( 1720 – 1861 ).

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.

Construction of these mansions began as early as 1720.

* John Woolman ( 1720 – 1772 ), noted Quaker essayist and early anti-slavery advocate.

Another important early landowner, Major John Bradford, had patented over in the Sandy Spring area by 1720, including " Charley Forest ", " Charley Forest Enlarged ", " Higham ", and " Discovery.

An early collection was " Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy " published between 1698 and 1720.

The early Oxford English Dictionary ( with citations from 1720 to 1854 ) still defined brig as being either identical to a brigantine, or alternatively, a vessel of similar sail plan to a modern brig.

Thomas Gage ( 1719 or 1720 – 2 April 1787 ) was a British general, best known for his many years of service in North America, including his role as military commander in the early days of the American Revolution.

Carlo Antonio Campioni ( November 16, 1720 – April 12, 1788 ), also known as Carlo Antonio Campione or Charles Antoine Campion, was an Italian composer, as well as a collector of early music.

She contracted and survived smallpox in 1720, and two years later her mother helped to popularise the practice of variolation ( an early type of immunisation against smallpox ), which had been witnessed by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Charles Maitland in Constantinople.

Naoise O ' Haughan, also known as Neesy, Ness and Nessie ( 1691 – 1720 ) was a highwayman in County Antrim, Ireland in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

William Caslon founded the Caslon Foundry at around 1720, which became the leading English typefoundry of the 18th and early 19th centuries.

Development after 1720 was rapid, and a shift to heavier industry occurred from the early 19th century, with forges replacing cutlers wheels, or in some cases being built alongside them.

* Calico Jack Rackham ( 1682 – 1720 ), English pirate captain in the early 18th century

Other early designs include the house of Cannons, Middlesex ( 1716 – 1720 ), for James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, and the tower of Wren's St. Clement Danes ( 1719 ).

Gibbs ' mature style emerges in the early 1720s, with the house of Ditchley, Oxfordshire ( 1720 – 1722 ), for George Lee, 2nd Earl of Lichfield.

Among the bubbles or financial manias described by Mackay are the South Sea Company bubble of 1711 – 1720, the Mississippi Company bubble of 1719 – 1720, and the Dutch tulip mania of the early seventeenth century.

In the early months of 2008, O ' Neal signed with Atlanta-Nashville based record label 1720 Entertainment.

Several of the early historiographers royal were foreigners, but the statutes of 1720 for the royal chancellery prescribed that the position had to be filled by a person of Swedish nationality.

From 1720 the owner of the Manor was Baron Onslow, whose title was elevated to an Earldom from a Barony in the early nineteenth century and who were frequent MPs for Guildford.

However, some sources say that the route was in use as early as 1720 for transporting stone from the Gell's quarries in the Hopton area.

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.

The Arochukwu kingdom which emerged after the Aro-Ibibio wars from 1630 – 1720, and went on to form the Aro Confederacy which economically dominated parts of midwestern and eastern Nigeria with pockets of influence in Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon.

The proposal was accepted in a slightly altered form in April 1720.

St. Paul of the Cross wrote the rules of the Congregation in December 1720 ; and in 1725, Pope Benedict XIII granted Paul the permission to form his congregation.

Meanwhile, Ali Muhammad Khan ( 1737 – 1749 ), grandson of Shah Alam, captured the city of Bareilly and made it his capital, later uniting the Rohillas to form the ' State of Rohilkhand ', between 1707 and 1720, making Bareilly his capital.

In 1538, King Francis I of France threatened Edmund Bonner — Henry VIII's Ambassador to the French court and later Bishop — with a hundred strokes of the halberd as punishment for Bonner's " insolent behaviour ".

Other thinkers, like the conservative Edmund Burke, maintained that the Revolution was the product of a few conspiratorial individuals who brainwashed the masses into subverting the old order — a claim rooted in the belief that the revolutionaries had no legitimate complaints.

From around 1810 to 1840, the best-known Shakespearean performances in the United States were tours by leading London actors — including George Frederick Cooke, Junius Brutus Booth, Edmund Kean, William Charles Macready, and Charles Kemble.

In 1658, three Irishmen — John Shehan, David Laragen and Edmund Malony — were lashed for breaking curfew and being suspected of stealing a boat.

* White Knight ( see Edmund Fitzgibbon ) — now dormant.

In 1913 — the year of Edmund Husserl's Ideas, Niels Bohr's quantized atom, Ezra Pound's founding of imagism, the Armory Show in New York, and, in Saint Petersburg, the " first futurist opera ," Victory Over the Sun — another Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, working in Paris for Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, composed The Rite of Spring for a ballet, choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky, that depicted human sacrifice.

Whether the adoption of the classical Alexander for the future Alexander I of Scotland ( either for Pope Alexander II or for Alexander the Great ) and the biblical David for the future David I of Scotland represented a recognition that William of Normandy would not be easily removed, or was due to the repetition of Anglo-Saxon Royal name — another Edmund had preceded Edgar — is not known.

The Minoan Brotherhood was founded in 1977 in New York by Edmund Buczynski, an elder in the Gardnerian, WICA and New York Welsh Traditions, in order to create a Craft tradition for gay and bisexual men — one that would celebrate and explore the distinctive mysteries unique to men who love men.

To Gosse's great grief, his son rejected Christianity — though almost certainly not as early or as dramatically as Edmund portrayed the break in Father and Son.

" Although Edmund went out of his way to declare that the story of Father and Son was " scrupulously true ," Thwaite cites a dozen occasions on which either Edmund's " memory betray him — he admitted it was ' like a colander '"— or he " changed things deliberately to make a better story.

In his 1882 book, The Relations of the Church to Society — Theological Essays, a Jesuit theologian, Father Edmund J. O ' Reilly, wrote: "... not that an interregnum covering the whole period would have been impossible or inconsistent with the promises of Christ, for this is by no means manifest.

Nicknamed " Stevie " by the family, he joined eight surviving brothers and sisters — Mary Helen, George Peck, Jonathan Townley, William Howe, Agnes Elizabeth, Edmund Byran, Wilbur Fiske, and Luther.

* 1718 — Edmund Halley discovers stellar proper motions by comparing his astrometric measurements with those of the Greeks

* 1678 — Edmund Halley publishes a catalog of 341 southern stars, the first systematic southern sky survey

Many of the best-known writers of whodunits in this period were British — notably Agatha Christie, Nicholas Blake, G. K. Chesterton, Christianna Brand, Edmund Crispin, Michael Innes, Dorothy L. Sayers, Gladys Mitchell, Josephine Tey.

* Edmund Zarzycki, La Diversion Allemande le 3 Septembre 1939 a Bydgoszcz à la Lumiere des Actes du Tribunal Special Hitlerien de la Ville, 279 — 94 in Polish Western Affairs / La Pologne et les Affaires Occidentales 22 / 2 ( 1981 )

Britomart figures in Edmund Spenser's knightly epic The Faerie Queene, where she is an allegorical figure of the virgin Knight of Chastity, representing English virtue — in particular, English military power — through a folk etymology that associated Brit -, as in Briton, with Martis, here thought of as " of Mars ", the Roman war god.

Before the introduction of firearms, bows or crossbows were often used — Saint Sebastian is usually depicted as executed by a squad of Roman auxiliary archers in around 288 AD ; King Edmund the Martyr of East Anglia, by some accounts, was tied to a tree and shot dead by Viking archers on 20 November 869 or 870 AD.

In the mid-to-late 1590s Buck was in competition with playwright John Lyly for the reversion of the office of the Master of the Revels, then held by Buck's relation Sir Edmund Tilney (" reversion " meaning that the candidate would obtain the office when the present office-holder vacated it — usually by death ).