The 3rd Earl of Burlington, who was the principal patron of the Palladian movement in England and himself a noted architect, had alterations made to Londesborough by William Kent in the 1720s.

Scottish politics in the late 18th century was dominated by the Whigs, with the benign management of Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll ( 1682 – 1761 ), who was in effect the " viceroy of Scotland " from the 1720s until his death in 1761.

When Defoe visited in the mid 1720s, he claimed that the hostility towards his party was, " because they were English and because of the Union, which they were almost universally exclaimed against ".

The marriage was already in trouble by the early 1720s, as Maria Catherina was publicly rumored to be having an affair with a Swedish military officer.

Much of the original British road system was poorly maintained by thousands of local parishes, but from the 1720s ( and occasionally earlier ) turnpike trusts were set up to charge tolls and maintain some roads.

In the early 1720s Harrison was commissioned to make a new turret clock at Brocklesby Park, North Lincolnshire.

By the late 1720s, the village was trading across the Arabian Sea with Muscat and the Persian Gulf region.

The philibeg or small kilt, also known as the walking kilt ( similar to the modern kilt ) was invented by an English Quaker from Lancashire called Thomas Rawlinson sometime in the 1720s for the use of the Highlanders he and Iain MacDonnell, chief of the MacDonnells of Inverness employed in logging, charcoal manufacture and iron smelting, for which the belted plaid was " cumbrous and unwieldy ".

For example, composer Johann Sebastian Bach's St. John Passion, composed in the 1720s, was appropriated by the Nazi regime in the 1930s for propaganda.

One of the first people to do so was the English historian Henry Bourne, who, writing in the 1720s, described the practice occurring in the Tyne valley.

Between the 1680s and 1720s, the VOC was therefore able to equip and man an appreciable expansion of its fleet, and acquire a large amount of precious metals to finance the purchase of large amounts of Asian commodities, for shipment to Europe.

There were twelve London newspapers and 24 provincial papers by the 1720s ( the Daily Courant was the first daily newspaper in London ).

From the 1720s he was the leading bass at Lincoln's Inn Fields and then at Covent Garden.

His father was John Henry, an immigrant from Aberdeenshire, Scotland, who had attended King's College, Aberdeen before emigrating to the Colony of Virginia in the 1720s.

Boulle marquetry dropped out of favor in the 1720s, but was revived in the 1780s.

This was considered part of the German Coast in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, named for numerous German migrants who settled in the 1720s.

In the 1720s, the Brak of Waalo was Erim M ' Bagnick and Béquio Malicouri, king of the Royaume d ' Oral ( Bethio ), was his vassal.

In the 1720s, the Brak ( king ) of Oualo ( Waalo ) was Erim M ' Bagnick ( Yérim Mbañik ) and Béquio Malicouri king of the Royaume d ' Oral was his vassal.

The village was founded in the 1720s as Saint Philippe du Grand Marais ( called St. Philippe ) by French coureurs de bois.

The post was founded in the 1720s by settlers from France and Hainaut.

They also assisted government of Jamaica in hunting down Maroons in the 1720s.

Leoni designed Moor Park, Hertfordshire, during the 1720s, assisted by the painter Sir James Thornhill.

are favourite schemes for English Palladian mirror frames of the late 1720s through the 1740s, by such designers as William Kent.

Elizabeth in the 1720s ( as painted by Ivan Nikitich Nikitin )

In the late 1720s, Governor William Gooch promoted settlement by issuing large land grants.

Western settlement began in the 1720s and 1730s with Quakers, Scots-Irish, Germans and others moving south from Pennsylvania and Maryland and by English and African slaves moving upriver from Tidewater.

* Cato's Letters, a series of classical liberal essays by British writers John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon written in the 1720s

Warren was originally inhabited by the Lenape Native Americans and was settled in the 1720s by European farmers.

Modifications were made to it in the 1720s by Giacomo Leoni, who retained some of the Elizabethan features and added others, particularly the courtyard and the south range.

In the eighteenth and nineteenth century, this was part of the German Coast, an area along the east bank of the Mississippi River that was settled by numerous German pioneers in the 1720s.

The piano as built by Cristofori in the 1720s boasted almost all of the features of the modern instrument.

Although some masonic writers have attempted to see Royal Arch symbolism in material from the 1720s, the earliest definite reference is to a Royal Arch in a procession in Dublin preceding the master and held aloft by two " Excellent Masons ".

Today's Theatre Royal at another site in the Haymarket is a building originally by John Nash ( 1820 ), replacing a previous theatre of the 1720s.

The Italian Rococo, which flourished in Rome from the 1720s onward, was profoundly influenced by the ideas of Borromini.

The peace was lasting and it would not be until the 1720s that their territory would again be threatened by the Europeans.

Henrietta Street () is a Dublin street, to the north of Bolton Street on the north side of the city, first laid out and developed by Luke Gardiner during the 1720s.

Parterre gardening was swept away, beginning in England, by the naturalistic English landscape garden, beginning in the 1720s.

Since Pope began publishing when very young and continued to the end of his life, his poetry is a reference point in any discussion of the 1710s, 1720s, 1730s, or even 1740s.

Thomas Betterton played Henry in 1664, and Colley Cibber revived it frequently in the 1720s.

Wimpole Hall's grounds were laid out and modified by landscape designers such as George London and Henry Wise ( 1693 – 1705 ), Charles Bridgeman ( 1720s ), Robert Greening ( 1740s ), ' Capability ' Brown ( 1767 ), and Humphry Repton ( 1801 – 1809 ).

During the second half of the 1720s, Haywood continued acting, and she moved over to the Haymarket Theatre to join with Henry Fielding in the opposition plays of the 1730s.

* Braithwaite, William C. Second Period of Quakerism ( 1919 ); revised by Henry Cadbury ( 1961 ), covers 1660 to 1720s in Britain