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In 1720, an act was passed for the rebuilding of the church allowing for a sum of up to £ 22, 000, to be raised by a rate on the parishioners.
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In 1720 an act of Parliament was passed allowing Thomas Steers and William Squire to make the Douglas navigable to small ships between Wigan and its mouth.
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.
In the mid-Mersey area communications were being improved by the development of inland waterways, including the Sankey Canal from St Helens to Warrington which was completed in 1757, the Mersey and Irwell Navigation, the act for which achieved Royal Assent in 1720, and the Bridgewater Canal from Manchester to Runcorn, which opened throughout its length in 1776.
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During the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion, Hume tutored the Marquis of Annandale ( 1720 – 92 ), who was officially described as a " lunatic ".
Defoe's next novel was Captain Singleton ( 1720 ), a bipartite adventure story whose first half covers a traversal of Africa and whose second half taps into the contemporary fascination with piracy.
It remained a part of the Viceroyalty of Peru until 1720, when it joined the newly created Viceroyalty of New Granada ; within the viceroyalty, however, Ecuador was awarded its own audiencia in 1563, allowing it to deal directly with Madrid on certain matters.
His grandfather, also named Edward, had lost all of his assets as a result of the South Sea Bubble stock market collapse in 1720, but eventually regained much of his wealth, so that Gibbon's father was able to inherit a substantial estate.
The average rate for a one room apartment was 641. 60 CHF ( US $ 510, £ 290, € 410 ), a two room apartment was about 874. 46 CHF ( US $ 700, £ 390, € 560 ), a three room apartment was about 1126. 37 CHF ( US $ 900, £ 510, € 720 ) and a six or more room apartment cost an average of 2691. 07 CHF ( US $ 2150, £ 1210, € 1720 ).
The Baroque period ( 1600 to 1720 ) was one of the most fertile times in German literature.
His dissertation was The Concept of Property in Puritan New England, 1630 – 1720.
George Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen ( 6 October 1637 – 20 April 1720 ), Lord Chancellor of Scotland, was the second son of Sir John Gordon, 1st Baronet, of Haddo, Aberdeenshire, ( executed in 1644 ); by his wife, Mary Forbes.
Johann Friedrich Agricola ( 4 January 1720 – 2 December 1774 ) was a German composer, organist, singer, pedagogue, and writer on music.
The city was an integral part of the Talpur dynasty in 1720.
In 1720 the Villasur expedition from Santa Fe tried to reach the French on the Mississippi but was defeated by the Pawnee in eastern Nebraska.
The idea was reprised in 1720 by Giambattista Vico, in his highly influential Scienza Nuova.
Simon Ockley ( 1678 – 9 August 1720 ) was a British Orientalist.
In 1708, Tsaritsyn was assigned to Kazan Governorate ; in 1719, to Astrakhan Governorate ; According to the census in 1720, the city's population was 408 people.
Spain was slower in ratifying treaties of peace ; it did not formally end its conflict with Austria until 1720, after it had been defeated by all the powers in the War of the Quadruple Alliance.
Year 1720 ( MDCCXX ) was a leap year starting on Monday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.
During the reign of Johann Wilhelm ( 1690-1716 ) the Electoral residence was moved to Düsseldorf, before being moved back to Heidelberg in 1718 and then to Mannheim in 1720.
Palermo was also managed by Savoy between 1713 – 1717 and 1718 – 1720 and Austria between 1720 – 1734.
( The latter was traded for Sicily in 1720 ).
A second Spanish invasion fleet in 1720 was deterred by the defenses ( and the accidental presence of a Royal Navy ship in Nassau ).
Sugar cane dominated Barbados ' economic growth, and the island's cash crop was at the top of the sugar industry until 1720.
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Such financial regulation is often enacted in response to a crisis as was the case with the Bubble Act 1720 which was passed by the British government at the height of the South Sea Bubble to try stop speculation in such schemes.
An Act of Parliament was passed in 1720 that enabled any corporations within the University to sell ground for building a library.
Governor of the Mexican provinces of Coahuila and Texas, Marqués de San Miguel de Aguayo, in 1720 passed through on an expedition that brought goats, 2800 horses and 6400 sheep that was the onset of Spanish ranching in Texas.
The oldest homes date to 1720 or earlier ; many of them were established by 1777 when " a number of the stragglers from the defeated American Army, hungry, demoralized and exhausted in their flight from the field at Brandywine, collected in the neighborhood of Logtown, where they passed the night, sleeping in the outbuildings and open fields.
The necessary legislation was proposed in 1720, and the Act of Parliament for the navigation passed into law in 1721.
About the year 1720, this patent passed into the hands of a wealthy family of Boston by the name of Waldo, and from that time it was known as the Waldo Patent.
As his Post Office position was not compatible with a parliamentary seat, he passed it on to his younger brother Richard when he entered Parliament in 1720 for Guildford.
It was passed on 9 June 1720, and was also known as the Royal Exchange and London Assurance Corporation Act 1719, because those companies were incorporated under it.
In fact, the Act was passed in June 1720, before the peak of the bubble.
The house and estate was passed to his grandson John Scrope a baron of the Exchequer and as Scrope died without issue, his estate of Wormsley passed to the descendants of his sister Anne ( died 1720 ), who had married Henry Fane of Brympton.
He was childless and on his death in 1720 the titles passed to his first cousin, the third Earl.
After Sicily passed under Austrian rule in 1720, trouble erupted as Vienna stationed permanent garrisons of German-born troops on the island, provoking frequent and violent confrontations with the local populace.
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In 1720 some Chickasaws massacred the French traders among them, and did not make peace for four years.
In 1720, the South Sea Company, created to trade in cotton, agricultural goods and slaves, collapsed, causing the financial ruin of thousands of investors and heavy losses for many others including members of the royal family.
* March 4 – Henry Wisner, American Continental Congressman for New York ( b. 1720 )
From 1720 on, the market for sugar from Indonesia declined as the competition from cheap sugar from Brazil increased.
He was a brother of Colonel Alexander Montgomery ( 1720 – 1800 ) and a cousin of Colonel Alexander Montgomery ( 1686 – 1729 ), both Members of Parliament for County Donegal.
The current Dutchess County Court House | county courthouse, built in 1903, stands on the same site as the original 1720 building. Fun at the Dutchess County FairPrior to Anglo-Dutch settlement, what is today Dutchess County was a leading center for the native Wappinger peoples.
In April 1720, Walpole's wing of the Whig party reconciled with the governing wing, and Walpole and Caroline helped to effect a reconciliation between the King and her husband for the sake of public unity.
An advertisement in 1720, described it as: "... a pretty open Place, especially at the upper end, where are four or five very large and well-built Houses, fit for Persons of Honour and Quality ; each House having a pleasant Prospect into St. James's Park, with a Tarras Walk.
Victor Amadeus was forced to exchange Sicily for the less important kingdom of Sardinia in 1720 after objections from an alliance of four nations, including several of his former allies.
Victor Amadeus was forced to exchange Sicily for the less important kingdom of Sardinia in 1720 after objections from an alliance of four nations, including several of his former allies.
In 1720 they exchanged Sicily for Sardinia of which they were kings.
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.
Modified versions of the 1620 were used as the CPU of the IBM 1710 and IBM 1720 Industrial Process Control Systems ( making it the first digital computer considered reliable enough for real-time process control of factory equipment ).
By April 1720 Hogarth was an engraver in his own right, at first engraving coats of arms, shop bills, and designing plates for booksellers.
They lived happily together for 30 years, until Catharine's death on 21 July 1720.
Due to fears of tides and hurricanes in the 18th century, the capital of French Louisiana was later moved by colonial governor Bienville, in 1723, from Biloxi to a new inland harbor town named La Nouvelle-Orléans ( New Orleans ), built for the purpose in 1718 – 1720.
The name for the area goes back at least as far as March 1, 1720, when it was referred to as " Poquanick ", a precinct in Hunterdon County.
The neighbour to this is the Fisher Building of 1759 ( Stc X ) The undistinguished looking Stc XI, south west side, is in fact the oldest structure in this quadrangle, 1720, originally intended as accommodation for scholars from Bristol, hence its name.
In 1720, Newton published his Scheme of Disciplines laying out his scheme of education with a view to obtaining a charter of incorporation, and, on 18 May 1723, he presented his petition for a charter.
Dr George Clarke, Henry Keene and James Wyatt were responsible for different stages of its lengthy construction ( 1720 – 91 ), owing to shortage of funds.
A church building was built in 1720 and was used for 73 years.
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