Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1720. 1720 (MDCCXX) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday...

The IBM 1720 was a pilot project to create a real-time process control computer based on the IBM 1620 Model I. Only three 1720 systems were ever built:...

The Kingdom of Sardinia is a term used to denote the Savoyard state from 1720 until 1861, which united the island of Sardinia with the mainland possessions...

Events from the year 1720 in Canada. French Monarch: Louis XV British and Irish Monarch: George I Governor General of New France: Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil...

1729 BC to December 31, 1720 BC. c. 1720 BC–The Hyksos invade and conquer Egypt, establishing their capital at Avaris. c. 1720 BC–Adasi, a native king...

Still Life Paintings from the Netherlands 1550–1720, (Dutch:Het Nederlandse Stilleven 1550–1720) is a 1999 art exhibition catalog published for a jointly...

This article lists the most significant events and works of the year 1720 in music. April – The Royal Academy of Music, a company formed for Handel in...

This article is a summary of the major literary events and publications of 1720. September–October – The "South Sea Bubble", i.e. the collapse of the South...

as it expanded its operations dealing in government debt, and peaked in 1720 before suddenly collapsing to little above its original flotation price....

George Croghan (c. 1718 – August 31, 1782) was an Irish-born fur trader in the Ohio Country of North America (current United States) who became a key early...

Satisfaction 1720 (Danish: Tordenskjold & Kold) is a Danish feature film directed by Henrik Ruben Genz. The drama takes place in 1720 and follows the acclaimed...

The Treaties of Stockholm were two treaties signed in 1719 and 1720 that ended the war between Sweden and an alliance of Hanover and Prussia. Aspects of...

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...

the houses. An Act of Parliament (7 Geo. 1. St. 1. c. 13) was passed in 1720 that enabled any corporations within the university to sell ground for building...

William Jameson (fl. 1689–1720) was a blind Scottish university teacher and religious controversialist. Jameson was born blind, but, being educated at...

The Kingdom of Sicily was ruled by the House of Savoy from 1713 until 1720, although they lost control of it in 1718 and did not relinquish their title...

William Cocke (1672 – 1720) was an English politician and doctor in the early 1700s. He was among the first university-trained doctors in Colony of Virginia...

of the Habsburgs until 1717, and then of the Spanish Empire again until 1720. The kingdom was a part of the Crown of Aragon and initially consisted of...

Robert Bruce (Russian: Роман Вилимович Брюс, Roman Vilimovich Bruce; 1668–1720) was the first chief commander of Saint Petersburg. Of Scottish descent,...

River Kennet Navigation Act 1720 Act of Parliament Parliament of Great Britain Long title An Act for enlarging the Time for making the River Kennet navigable...

Saint-Germain-en-Laye, le 21 Avril 1720, agé d'environ 74 ans." Auger 1805, p. 7, line 12. "Hamilton mourut a St.-Germain-en-Laye, le 6 août 1720, âgé d'environ soixante-quatorze...

on Nassau was a Spanish military expedition that took place in February 1720 during the War of the Quadruple Alliance wherein Spanish forces assaulted...

Robert Knox (8 February 1641 – 19 June 1720) was an English sea captain in the service of the British East India Company. He was the son of another sea...

The London Underground: An Illustrated History. Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-1720-4. Weinreb, Ben; Hibbert, Christopher; Keay, John; Keay, Julia (2008). The...

Anne Bonny (disappeared after 28 November 1720) was a pirate who served under John “Calico Jack” Rackham. Amongst the few recorded female pirates in history...

Jonathan Mayhew (October 8, 1720 – July 9, 1766) was a noted American Congregational minister at Old West Church, Boston, Massachusetts. Mayhew was born...

The year 1720 in science and technology involved some significant events. February 10 – Edmond Halley is appointed as Astronomer Royal of England. May...

John Rackham (hanged 18 November 1720), commonly known as Calico Jack, was an English pirate captain operating in the Bahamas and in Cuba during the early...

outbreak of bubonic plague in Western Europe. Arriving in Marseille, France, in 1720, the disease killed over 100,000 people: 50,000 in the city during the next...

England. Improvements to the river to make it navigable were authorised in 1720 and the work, which included eleven locks, was completed in 1732. An unusual...