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January 21 – Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Stockholm (Great Northern War). February 10 – Edmond Halley is appointed as Astronomer Royal for England. February 17 – The Treaty of The Hague is signed between Spain, Britain, France, Austria and the Dutch Republic, ending the War of the Quadruple Alliance. [1]
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1720s. The 1720s decade ran from January 1, 1720, to...
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1720 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian...
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1720s. The 1720s decade ran from January 1, 1720, to December 31, 1729. In Europe it was a decade of comparative peace following a lengthy period of near continuous warfare with treaties ending the War of the Quadruple Alliance and the Great Northern War.
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Public notice on the disposal of corpses during the Great Plague, 1720. The Great Plague of Marseille, also known as the Plague of Provence, was the last major outbreak of bubonic plague in Western Europe. Arriving in Marseille, France, in 1720, the disease killed over 100,000 people: 50,000 in the city during the next two years and another ...
The Great Plague Scare of 1720: Disaster and Society in the Eighteenth-Century World. On May 12, 1720, health officials in Marseille wrote the gouverneur of the region of Provence in Paris requesting to expedite the construction of a new building for the local Bureau de la santé or Health Board.
Events. 1720-60 - The Chickasaw fight the French and the Choctaw in the Southeast. c. 1720: French forts along the Mississippi River spread northward from New Orleans. To compensate for their loss, the French build a fortress at Louisbourg on the southeast tip of Cape Breton Island.
May 25, 2020 · O n May 25, 1720, a ship named the Grand Saint-Antoine arrived in the port of Marseille, France, laden with cotton, fine silks, and other goods. The invisible cargo it also carried, the bacteria...
Events. September–October – The "South Sea Bubble", i.e. the collapse of the South Sea Company in England, affects the fortunes of many writers, including John Gay. It features in several works of literature. There are suspicions of complicity by Robert Walpole 's government. December 29 – The Haymarket Theatre in London opens with a ...
