1720

1720 (MDCCXX) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1720th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 720th year of the 2nd millennium, the 20th year of the 18th century, and the 1st year of the 1720s decade. As of the start of 1720, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

1720 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1720 MDCCXX
Ab urbe condita	2473
Armenian calendar	1169 ԹՎ ՌՃԿԹ
Assyrian calendar	6470
Balinese saka calendar	1641–1642
Bengali calendar	1127
Berber calendar	2670
British Regnal year	6 Geo. 1 – 7 Geo. 1
Buddhist calendar	2264
Burmese calendar	1082
Byzantine calendar	7228–7229
Chinese calendar	己亥年 (Earth Pig) 4416 or 4356     — to — 庚子年 (Metal Rat) 4417 or 4357
Coptic calendar	1436–1437
Discordian calendar	2886
Ethiopian calendar	1712–1713
Hebrew calendar	5480–5481
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1776–1777
- Shaka Samvat	1641–1642
- Kali Yuga	4820–4821
Holocene calendar	11720
Igbo calendar	720–721
Iranian calendar	1098–1099
Islamic calendar	1132–1133
Japanese calendar	Kyōhō 5 (享保５年)
Javanese calendar	1644–1645
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4053
Minguo calendar	192 before ROC 民前192年
Nanakshahi calendar	252
Thai solar calendar	2262–2263
Tibetan calendar	ས་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Earth-Boar) 1846 or 1465 or 693     — to — ལྕགས་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Iron-Rat) 1847 or 1466 or 694

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.