Today in History for Year 1720

Months in Year 1720: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 14 of 14

Jan 6th - The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings.
Feb 1st - Sweden & Prussia sign peace treaty
Feb 10th - Edmund Halley appointed 2nd Astronomer Royal of England
Feb 11th - Sweden & Prussia sign peace (2nd Treaty of Stockholm)
Feb 29th - Queen Ulrica Eleonora of Sweden resigns
May 25th - "Le Grand St Antoine" reaches Marseille, plague kills 80,000
Jun 9th - Sweden & Denmark signs 3rd Treaty of Stockholm
Jun 10th - Mrs Clements of England markets 1st paste-style mustard
Jul 3rd - Sweden & Denmark sign peace treaty
Jul 27th - The second important victory of the Russian Navy - the Battle of Grengam.
Sep 12th - Isaak of Hoornbeek elected Dutch pension advisor
Oct 10th - French government proclaims strike on banknotes
Oct 17th - Pierre de Marivaux' "Arlequin Poli Par l'Amour," premieres in Paris
Nov 9th - Rabbi Yehuda Hasid synagogue set afire

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 42 of 42

Jan 4th - Johann Friedrich Agricola, German (court)composer/organist
Jan 11th - Gijsbert John van Hardenbroeck, Utrechts regent
Jan 13th - Richard Hurd, English bishop and writer (d. 1808)
Jan 27th - Samuel Foote, England, actor/dramatist (Mirror)
Jan 30th - Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist and entomologist (d. 1778)
Feb 8th - Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1750)
Feb 26th - Gian Francesco Albani, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1803)
Mar 9th - Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician (d. 1790)
Mar 13th - Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist and writer (d. 1793)
Mar 22nd - Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect (d. 1799)
Apr 3rd - Elia van Vilnius, [Elijahu ben Salomo Zalman], Latvian rabbi
Apr 23rd - Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi (d. 1797)
May 11th - Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German adventurer (d. 1797)
May 15th - Maximilian Hell, Slovakian astronomer (d. 1792)
May 21st - Antonio Corbisiero, composer
Jul 18th - Gilbert White, "father of British naturalists",,17660718::"Friedrich Fleischmann, composer
Jul 20th - Ignaz Vitzthumb, composer
Jul 24th - Louise Ulrike, queen of Sweden/wife of Adolf Frederik
Aug 8th - Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish politician (d. 1796)
Aug 10th - Franz Joseph Leonti Meyer von Schavensee, composer
Aug 11th - Martin Gerbert, composer
Aug 12th - Martin Gerbert, [von Hornau], prince-abbot/music historian
Aug 12th - Konrad Ekhof, German actor (d. 1778)
Aug 17th - Charles D J Eisen, French engraver/painter (Contes de La Fontaine)
Aug 18th - Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English murderer (d. 1760)
Aug 20th - Bernard de Bury, composer
Aug 30th - Samuel Whitbread, English brewer (d. 1796)
Sep 12th - Frederick Philipse III, NYC, land owner (Bronx, Westchester & Putnam)
Sep 22nd - Adolph Carl Kunzen, composer
Oct 3rd - Johann P Uz, German poet (Lyrische Poem)
Oct 4th - Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian etcher
Oct 8th - Jonathan Mayhew, American minister (d. 1766)
Oct 17th - Maria Teresa Agnesi, composer
Oct 19th - John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist (d. 1772)
Nov 1st - Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (d. 1791)
Nov 16th - Carlo Antonio Campioni, composer
Dec 4th - Jean-Jacques Robson, composer
Dec 13th - Carlo Gozzi, Italian dramatist (d. 1804)
Dec 14th - Justus Möser, German statesman (d. 1794)
Dec 15th - J F Beck, writer
Dec 20th - Charles Edward Stuart, [Bonnie Prince Charlie/Young Pretender]
Dec 31st - [Bonnie Prince] Charles Edward Stuart, English pretender to throne

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 14 of 14

Jan 31st - Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford, English privy councillor (c. 1654)
Feb 27th - Samuel Parris, English-born Puritan minister (b. 1653)
Mar 6th - Pieter van Flowers, Flemish painter, buried at 63
Mar 8th - Georg Bronner, composer, dies at 53
Apr 2nd - Joseph Dudley, colonial Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1647)
Apr 21st - Antoine Hamilton, French writer (b. 1646)
Jun 27th - Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu, French poet (b. 1639)
Jul 27th - Johann Samuel Welter, composer, dies at 69
Aug 3rd - Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch statesman (b. 1641)
Aug 9th - Simon Ockley, English orientalist (b. 1678)
Aug 17th - Anne Lefèvre, French scholar (b. 1654)
Sep 3rd - Henri de Massue, French soldier and diplomat (b. 1648)
Oct 10th - Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor (b. 1640)
Nov 17th - Calico Jack, English pirate (b. 1682)