1720 in Great Britain:

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1720 English cricket season

Events from the year 1720 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.

[edit] Incumbents

• Monarch - George I of Great Britain

[edit] Events

• 17 February - Treaty of Den Haag signed between Britain, France, Austria, the Dutch Republic and Spain ending the War of the Quadruple Alliance.^[1]
• April–September - "South Sea Bubble", The South Sea Company collapses.^[1]
• 16 November - Pirate Calico Jack is brought to trial at St. Jago de la Vega in Jamaica.
• 29 December - Haymarket Theatre opens in London.

[edit] Births

• 13 January - Richard Hurd, bishop and writer (died 1808)
• 27 January - Samuel Foote, dramatist and actor (died 1777)
• 9 March - Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, politician (died 1790)
• 18 July - Gilbert White, naturalist and cleric (died 1793)
• 18 August - Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, murderer (died 1760)
• 30 August - Samuel Whitbread, brewer and politician (died 1796)
• 31 December - Charles Edward Stuart, pretender to the British throne (died 1788)

[edit] Deaths

• 31 January - Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford, privy councillor (born c.1645)
• 9 August - Simon Ockley, orientalist (born 1678)
• 17 November - Calico Jack, pirate (year of birth unknown)

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