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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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The Great Plague Scare of 1720: Disaster and Society in the Eighteenth-Century World. Cindy Ermus. 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.
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]
25 de mar. de 2024 · Great Awakening, religious revival in the British American colonies mainly between about 1720 and the 1740s.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
1 de dic. de 2020 · Updated on December 01, 2020. The first quarter of the 18th century in America can be characterized as a time of conflict, with different European colonies—English, French, and Spanish—waging fierce and political battles against each other and Indigenous inhabitants over new territories and colonization strategies.
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