* 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 – 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 )

Bubonic plague victims in a mass grave from Great Plague of Marseille | 1720 – 1721 in Martigues, France

The formal conclusion of the war was marked by the Swedish-Hanoveranian and Swedish-Prussian Treaties of Stockholm ( 1719 ), the Dano-Swedish Treaty of Frederiksborg ( 1720 ), and the Russo-Swedish Treaty of Nystad ( 1721 ).

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 ).

Early satirical works included an Emblematical Print on the South Sea Scheme ( c. 1721 ), about the disastrous stock market crash of 1720 known as the South Sea Bubble, in which many English people lost a great deal of money.

Among the earliest tithingmen in the village were Jonathan Robinson ( 1678 ), Abraham and Jeremiah Folsom ( 1720 ), Andrew Glidden ( 1721 ), Trueworthy Leavitt ( 1725 ), Samuel Edgerly ( 1728 ), Nathaniel Gilman ( 1729 ) and Nathaniel Webster ( 1729 ).

1719 ); Vernünflige Gedanken über allerhand auserlesene und juristische Handel ( 1720 – 1721 ); Historie der Weisheit und Torheit ( 3 vols., 1693 ); Kurze Lehrsätze van dem Laster der Zauberei mit dem Hexenprozess ( 1704 ); Weitere Erläuterungen der neueren Wissenschaft anderer Gedanken kennen zu lernen ( 1711 ).

The necessary legislation was proposed in 1720, and the Act of Parliament for the navigation passed into law in 1721.

* Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend ( 11 June 1720 – 25 June 1721 )

Negotiations were reopened with Russia at Nystad, in May 1720, but peace was not concluded till August 30, 1721 and then only under the direst pressure.

* 1720 – 1721 with Erdmuthe Sophie of Dieskau, by marriage of Loß

In July 1720, when Friedemann was nine, his mother Maria Barbara Bach died suddenly ; Johann Sebastian Bach remarried in December of 1721.

* Fuyi ( 福宜 ; 1720 – 1721 )

), Marie de Lesseps ( 1717 – 1722 ), Arnaud de Lesseps ( 1719 – 1726 ), Jean-Barthélémy de Lesseps ( 1720 – 1795 ), Marcel de Lesseps ( 1720 – 1730 ), Jean-Pierre de Lesseps ( 1721 – 1721 ), Catherine de Lesseps, Gracy de Lesseps ( 1725 – 1791 ), Plaisance de Lesseps ( 1727 – 1735 ), Michel de Lesseps ( 1729 – 1801 ), married in 1769 to Florence Verdier ( 1739 – 1822 ) ( parents of Louise Thérèse de Lesseps ( 1770 – 1866 ), married in 1788 to Mathieu Belland ( 1764 – 1817 )), Martin de Lesseps ( 1730 – 1807 ), married to Anna Caysergues ( 1730 – 1823 ) and had issue, Jeanne de Lesseps ( 1733 –?

Early in 1720 a partial reconciliation took place between the parties of Stanhope and Townshend, and in June of this year the latter became Lord President of the Council, a post which he held until February 1721, when, after the death of Stanhope and the forced retirement of Sunderland, a result of the South Sea Bubble, he was again appointed secretary of state for the northern department, with Walpole as First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer.

During the plague, which hit Marseille in 1720, the bishop Henri de Belsunce went three times by foot to the chapel at the Notre-Dame de la Garde on 28 September and 8 December 1720 and 13 August 1721 to bless the inhabitants of the city.

He claims to have written his memoirs five years following his last return to England, i. e., in 1720 or 1721.

In 1720 and 1721 he wrote two serenades to librettos by a gifted young poet, Metastasio, the beginning of a long, though interrupted, collaboration.

A descendant of the Georgian Kings, with Georgia already annexed by the Russian Empire at the death of King George XII Bagration of Georgia in 1801, ( with the Russian conquest of Ossetia in 1802 ), successor of King Erekle II Bagration, ( Georgian: ერეკლე II ) ( 7 November 1720 or 7 October 1721 – 11 January 1798 ) reigning as the king of Kakheti from 1744 to 1762, and of Kartli and Kakheti from 1762 until 1798.

John Dyer left Aberglasney for London in 1720 or 1721 to pursue painting and poetry.

His first appearance in the field of literature was in a polemical tract against John Toland, Vindiciae antiquae christianorum disciplinae ( 1720 ), which was soon followed by a volume of Observationes sacrae ( 1721 ).