1720s

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1720s: events by year

Contents: 1720 1721 1722 1723 1724 1725 1726 1727 1728 1729

1720

January–June

July–December

  • July 12 – The Lords Justice of the UK attempt to curb some of the excesses of the stock markets during the South Sea bubble. They dissolved a number of petitions for patents and charters, and abolished more than 80 joint-stock companies of dubious merit. According to Charles MacKay, this had little effect on the creation of "Bubbles", ephemeral joint-stock companies created during the hysteria of the times.[1]
  • September – South Sea Bubble: The English stock market crashes with dropping prices for stock in the South Sea Company, an English company granted a monopoly to trade with South America.
  • November 16 – Pirate Jack Rackham is brought to trial at St. Jago de la Vega in Jamaica.

Date unknown

1721

January–June

July–December

Date unknown

1722

January–June

July–December

Date unknown

1723

January–June

July–December

  • July – The Russian army, under Matyushkin, captures Baku.
  • September 1 – The Treaty of St. Petersburg is signed.
  • November 23 – The Province of Carolina incorporates New Bern as Newbern (the town later becomes the capital of North Carolina).

Date unknown

1724

January–June

Blenheim Palace completed.

July–December

Date unknown

1725

January–June

July–December

Date unknown

1726

January–June

July–December

Date unknown

1727

January–June

July–December

Date unknown

  • 1727–1800 – Lt. Col. Francisco de Mello Palheta smuggles coffee seeds to Brazil in a bouquet, starting a coffee empire.
  • The last execution for witchcraft is carried out in Scotland.
  • The first Amish move to America.
  • The Committee of 300 is founded with financial support from the Rothschild family. The committee's long term aims are to organize politics, commerce, banking, media, and the military in the interests of the ruling dynasties of the world, more specifically The Black Nobility.
  • The Royal Bank of Scotland is founded by royal charter in Edinburgh.
  • Catholic Charities is founded in New Orleans, by the French Ursuline Sisters.
  • Ursuline Academy is founded by the Sisters of the Order of Saint Ursula in New Orleans. Ursuline Academy enjoys the distinction of being both the oldest, continuously operating school for girls and the oldest Catholic school in the United States.

1728

January–June

July–December

Date unknown

In fiction

1729

January–June

July–December

Date unknown

Significant people

Births

  • September 27,1722(in Boston)-Samuel Adams-American statesman,political philosopher and Founding Father of the U.S..Died on October 2,1803. A beer is named after him in his honor.

Deaths

References

  1. ^ Charles Mackay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Harriman House Classics 2003)
  2. ^ "Sir Robert Walpole". 10. HM Government. http://www.number10.gov.uk/history-and-tour/sir-robert-walpole/. Retrieved 2011-11-16. 
  3. ^ Clear, Todd R.; Cole, George F.; Resig, Michael D. (2006). American Corrections (7th ed.). Thompson. 
  4. ^ Delambre, J. B. (1827). Histoire de l'astronomie au dix-huitième siècle. Paris: Bachelier. 

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