Editing 1720 (section)

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 21]] &ndash; [[Sweden]] and [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussia]] sign the [[Treaty of Stockholm (Great Northern War)]].
* [[February 10]] &ndash; [[Edmond Halley]] is appointed as [[Astronomer Royal]] for England.
* [[February 17]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of The Hague (1720)|Treaty of The Hague]] is signed between [[Spain]], [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Britain]], [[France]], [[Austria]] and the [[Dutch Republic]], ending the [[War of the Quadruple Alliance]] with effect from May 20.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology297298">{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/297|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/297 297–298]}}</ref>
* [[February 24]] &ndash; [[Battle of Nassau (1720)|Battle of Nassau]]: Spanish forces assault the [[Kingdom of Great Britain|British]] settlement of [[Nassau, Bahamas]] at the end of the [[War of the Quadruple Alliance]].
* [[March 11]] (February 29 [[Old Style]]) &ndash; Queen [[Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden]] resigns, to let her husband [[Frederick I of Sweden|Frederick I]] take over as king of Sweden. She had desired a joint rule, in a similar manner to [[William III of England|William III]] and [[Mary II of England|Mary II]] in Britain, but as the Swedish [[Riksdag of the Estates]] refuses this, she abdicates in her husband's favour instead.

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 4]] &ndash; The Riksdag of the Estates elects Frederick I new King of Sweden.
* [[April 17]] &ndash; [[Bajirao I]] appointed as the [[Peshwa]] of the [[Maratha Confederacy|Maratha Empire]] by [[Shahu I|Chhatrapati Shahu]] succeeding his father Peshwa 
* [[May 3]] &ndash; The coronation of King [[Frederick I of Sweden]] takes place in Stockholm, six weeks after his rule began.
* May &ndash; [[Great Plague of Marseille]] begins. The last major outbreak of [[bubonic plague]] in western Europe, the disease kill over 100,000 people in the city and surrounding area of France.<ref>{{cite book|first1=Roger|last1=Duchêne|first2=Jean|last2=Contrucci|title=Marseille, 2,600 ans d'histoire|year=2004|publisher=Fayard|isbn=978-2-213-60197-7|language=fr|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/marseille2600ans0000duch|chapter=Chapter 42|pages=360–78}}</ref>
* [[May 20]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of The Hague (1720)|Treaty of The Hague]], signed between Spain and the Quadruple Alliance (Britain, France, the Netherlands and Austria) on February 17, goes into effect.  Spain renounces its claims to the Italian possessions of the French throne, and Austria and the Duchy of Savoy trade [[Sicily]] for [[Sardinia]].
* [[May 25]] &ndash; The British privateer ''Speedwell'', captained by [[George Shelvocke]], is wrecked on the uninhabited island of [[Más a Tierra]], the same island where Alexander Selkirk was marooned for five years; the island off of the coast of [[Chile]] is later called [[Robinson Crusoe Island]]. The crew is marooned for five months but is able to build a boat from timbers salvaged from the wreck, and is able to escape the island on October 6.
* [[June 1]] &ndash; British silversmiths are once again allowed to use [[sterling silver]] after 24 years of being limited to a higher quality (but softer) [[Britannia silver]].
* [[June 11]] &ndash; The British Parliament approves the [[Bubble Act]] (officially the Royal Exchange and London Assurance Corporation Act 1719), prohibiting the formation of joint-stock companies without prior approval by royal charter.
* [[June 19]] &ndash; At [[Burhanpur]] (in the modern-day Indian state of [[Madhya Pradesh]]), the Nizam-ul-Mulk of Hyderabad survives an attempted ambush by [[Mughal Empire]] forces dispatched by the Sayyid brothers (Syed Abdullah Khan and Syed Husain Ali Khan Barha) and goes on to establish a rival state in southern India.    
* [[June 25]] &ndash; The "[[South Sea Bubble]]", the phenomenal growth of the [[South Sea Company]], reaches its peak as South Sea stock is priced at £1,060 a share. By the end of September, as panic sales are made, the price falls to £150.

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 12]] &ndash; Under the authority of the [[Bubble Act]], the Lords Justices in Great Britain attempt to curb some of the excesses of the stock markets during the "[[South Sea Bubble]]". They dissolve a number of petitions for patents and charters, and abolish more than 80 joint-stock companies of dubious merit, but this has little effect on the creation of "Bubbles", ephemeral joint-stock companies created during the hysteria of the times.<ref>{{cite book|first=Charles|last=MacKay|author-link=Charles Mackay (author)|title=[[Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds]]|publisher=Harriman House Classics|year=2003}}<!-- I do not know the page number, only have access to online version. I think MacKay's discussion of this action is around page 71, the second mention of the notorious "a company for carrying out an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is". --></ref>
* [[July 14]] &ndash; (July 3 O.S.)  The [[Treaty of Frederiksborg]] is signed between Denmark-Norway and Sweden, ending the [[Great Northern War]].
* [[July 27]] &ndash; The [[Battle of Grengam]] takes place in the Ledsund strait between the island communities of Föglö and Lemland. It is the last major naval battle in the Great Northern War taking place in the Åland Islands, marking the end of Russian and Swedish offensive naval operations in Baltic waters.
* [[August 14]] &ndash; The Spanish [[Villasur expedition]], which set out on [[June 16]] from [[New Mexico]], with the intention of checking French influence on the [[Great Plains]] of North America, ends in failure, as it is ambushed by a [[Pawnee people|Pawnee]] and [[Otoe]] force.
* [[September 30]] &ndash; "South Sea Bubble": The English stock market crashes, with dropping prices for stock in the [[South Sea Company]].<ref>"Commerce", in ''A Cyclopedia of Commerce and Commercial Navigation'', Volume 1, ed. by J. Smith Homans, (Harper & Brothers, 1859) p391</ref>

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 8]] &ndash; [[Sayyid Hussain Ali Khan Barha]], one of the powerful [[Sayyid brothers]] of the Mughal Empire in India, is stabbed to death by Turkish nobleman Haider Beg Dughlat after Dughlat distracts him by giving him a petition to read. The assassination is ordered by Nizam ul-Mulk in retaliation for Sayyid Hussain's attempted ambush on June 19.
* [[October 15]] &ndash; [[Muhammad Ibrahim (Mughal emperor)|Muhammad Ibrahim]], a grandson of the late Emperor [[Bahadur Shah I]], is freed from prison by conspirators and declared the Mughal Emperor as a rival of his brother [[Muhammad Shah]], beginning a 32-day reign that is described as being "like a drop of dew upon a blade of grass".
* [[November 13]] &ndash; India's Mughal Emperor [[Muhammad Shah]] defeats his brother, pretender [[Muhammad Ibrahim (Mughal emperor)|Muhammad Ibrahim]] in a battle at [[Hasanpur]] (in [[Uttar Pradesh]]). Ibrahim is returned to incarceration at the citadel of [[Shahjahanabad]], part of modern-day [[Delhi]].
* [[November 16]] &ndash; Pirate [[John Rackham]] (captured on October 22) is brought to trial at [[Spanish Town]] in [[Jamaica]]; he is [[hanged]] at [[Port Royal]] two days later. Most of his crew is also hanged but female pirates [[Mary Read]] and [[Anne Bonny]] are spared.
*[[December 8]] &ndash; [[Fath-Ali Khan Daghestani]] is deposed from his position as  [[List of Safavid Grand Viziers|Grand Vizier of Iran]] (at this time, part of the [[Safavid Empire]]) and tortured by Mohammadqoli Khan, the bodyguard of the Safavid Shah, [[Sultan Husayn]].

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* The [[Tuscarora people]] leave [[North Carolina]] as a result of European colonization.
* The Town on Queen Anne's Creek, [[North Carolina]] is renamed [[Edenton, North Carolina|Edenton]], in honor of North Carolina Governor [[Charles Eden (politician)|Charles Eden]]; it is incorporated in [[1722]].
* The [[Guild Regulation of 1720]] is introduced in Sweden. 
* The [[Kangxi Emperor]] announces that all western businessmen in China can trade only in [[Guangzhou]].
* The ''Academia Real da Historia'' is founded in [[Lisbon]], Portugal.
* [[Jonathan Swift]] begins major composition work on ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]'' in Ireland.
* ''[[Il teatro alla moda]]'', a satirical pamphlet by [[Benedetto Marcello]], is published anonymously in [[Venice]].
* The first yacht club in the world, the [[Royal Cork Yacht Club]], is founded in Ireland.</onlyinclude>
* Parallel to the English South Sea Bubble France experiences the Mississippi Bubble. Market shares of the [[Mississippi Company]] had reached a peak price of over 10,000 livres in spring just to plummet to 1,000 by the end of the year. Monthly inflation in France reaches 23 percent and a bank rush ensues when investors try in vain to convert paper notes issued by the Banque Royale into gold and siilver. [[John Law (economist)|John Law]], the Scottish architect of the Bubble, is forced to flee the country.