1720 to 1729

1720

x - Peter the Great + of Russia signs treaty with the Chinese permitting trade.
x - Japanese shogun Yoshimune repeals the laws against European books and study.
x - |STATUS| The population of American colonists reaches c475,000. Boston c12,000, Philadelphia c10,000, and New York c7000.

1721

x - Innocent XII + becomes pope ?+ [u.1724] [re.List of Popes]

1722

x - Peter the Great + issues an edict saying that the ruler of Russia shall choose his own successor.

1723

x - Russia ?+ gains control of southern shore of Caspian Sea. [u.1732]
x - |CHINA| Yongzheng [y~ung-juhng] rules [u.1735] and expands secret police
x - Benedict XIII + becomes pope ?+ [u.1730] [re.List of Popes]

1725

x - Scottish printer develops stereotyping system.
x - |Russia ?+| Catherine I + takes the throne at her husband's, Peter the Great + , death. [u.1762] [re.List of Tsars]
x - Louis XV of France marries Marie Leszczynska, daughter of the King of Poland.
x - |STATUS| The number of black slaves in the American colonies reaches 75,000.

1726

x - Jonathan Swift * [b.1667 d.1747] publishes Gullivers Travels *
x - |PHILADELPHIA| Riots as poor people tear down the pillories and stocks and burn them.

1727

x - Schulze begins science of photochemistry.
x - George II of Great Britain crowned.
x - |Russia ?+| Catherine I + dies, and Peter II +, the grandson of her husband is crowned emperor of Russia. [u.1730] [re.List of Tsars]

1728

x - Jewish colonists in New York City build the first American synagogue.

1729

x - Lazzaro Spallanzani, who would attempt to prove that abiogenesis doesn't work is born.
x - Benjamin Franklin ?*+ begins publishing The Pennsylvania Gazette, which eventually becomes the most popular colonial newspaper.
x - English house-carpenter Nathaniel Symons created a one-man expanding/contracting sinking boat as public entertainment.