In the year 1720, Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Stockholm, by and by ending the Great Northern War (Feb 11), Spanish forces assault the British settlement of Nassau in the Bahamas (Feb 24), Frederick I becomes the king of Sweden (Mar 24), the English stock market crashes (Sep), the Tuscarora people leave North Carolina as a result of European colonization, the world’s first yacht club is founded in Ireland, Jonathan Swift begins his Gulliver’s Travels - and all these fine people were born:
1720-0101 Mikko Eliaanpoika Saukko** (b Miekkasaari) father of Riitta Luoma - Alavus, Sweden-Finland (1801/81)
1720-0104 Johann Friedrich Agricola* organist/ singer/composer -Dobitschen, Thuringia, Holy Roman Empire (1774/54)
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1720-0127 Samuel Foote (B) dramatist/actor/theater manager - Truro, Cornwall, England (1777/57)
1720-0130 Charles De Geer* industrialist/entomologist - Finspång, Sweden (1778/58)
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1720-0215 Philippe Macquer* lawyer/historian - Paris, France (1770/49)
1720-0220 Lars Thorstensson Nyberg* psalm writer - Norra Fröjdered, Sweden (1792/72)
1720-0313 Charles Bonnet* naturalist/ philosophical writer - Geneva, Republic of Geneva (1793/73)
1720-0322 Nicolas-Henri Jardin* architect - St. Germain des Noyers, France (1799/79)
1720-0422 Joakim von Glan* Finnish lawyer - Ovansjö, Sweden (1798/78)
1720-0423 Vilna Gaon* (b Elijah ben Solomon Zalman) Lithuanian rabbi - Sialiec, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1797/77)
1720-0430 Johan Laihiander* priest/parliament member - Säkylä, Sweden-Finland (1794/73)
1720-0508 William Cavendish* nobleman/politician/PM - Devonshire, England (1764/44)
1720-0515 Maximilian Hell* (b Höll) Jesuit priest/astronomer - Selmecbánya, Kingdom of Hungary (1792/71)
1720-0628 Johann Christian Hebenstreit* German physician/botanist - Kleinjena, Holy Roman Empire (1795/75)
1720-0718 Gilbert White* pioneering naturalist/ ecologist/ornithologist - Selborne, Hampshire, England (1793/72)
1720-0808 Carl Fredrik Pechlin* Swedish politician/demagogue - Duchy of Holstein, Holy Roman Empire (1796/75)
1720-0911 Wilhelm Robert Nääf* Finnish academic - Odensvi, Sweden (1783/62)
1720-1004 Giovanni Battista Piranesi* archaeologist/ architect/artist - Venice, Republic of Venice (1778/58)
1720-1017 Geneviève Thiroux d’Arconville* (b Darius) novelist/translator /chemist - Paris, France (1805/85)
1720-1116 Charles-Antoine Campion* Italian composer - Lorraine, France (1788/67)
1720-1130 Johan Frosterus* Finnish vicar/poet - Paltamo, Sweden-Finland (1809/88)
1720-1220 Mikko Mikonpoika Luhtasela** (Ala-Kiikka) farmer/father of Mikko Mikonpoika Latva-Luhtasela - Kiikkala, Ilmajoki, Sweden-Finland (1792/71)
1720-1225 Anna Maria Mozart* (b Pertl) mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - St. Gilgen, Archbishopric of Salzburg (1778/57)
Updated 11.4.2023-2
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