Decades: 1670s 1680s 1690s 1700s 1710s - 1720s - 1730s 1740s 1750s 1760s 1770s
Years: 1715 1716 1717 1718 1719 - 1720 - 1721 1722 1723 1724 1725
Events January 6 - The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings February 11 - Sweden and Prussia sign the (2nd Treaty of Stockholm) declaring peace. February 29 - Queen Ulrike Eleonora of Sweden resigns. 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 Year in topic 1720 in literature 1720 in science Births January 4 - Johann Friedrich Agricola, composer (died 1774) May 11 - Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, officer and adventurer (died 1797) July 18 - Gilbert White, English naturalist and cleric (died 1793) October 4 - Giambattista Piranesi, Italian architect December 31 - Bonnie Prince Charlie of Great Britain, later leader of Jacobitism (died 1788) Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan Deaths (Buried July 7) - Maria Barbara Bach, first wife of Johann Sebastian Bach
