1720

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[edit] Events

  • The Town on Queen Anne's Creek, North Carolina is renamed Edenton in honor of North Carolina Governor Charles Eden. It is later incorporated in 1722.
  • The Tuscarora fled North Carolina as a result of European colonisation
  • Edmond Halley appointed Astronomer Royal
  • The Academia Real da Historia is founded in Lisbon, Portugal
  • Jonathan Swift begins Gulliver's Travels
  • Emperor Kangxi announced that all western businessmen could only trade in Guangzhou.