WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO OCTOBER 1720
Find out what all happened January to October 1720

Caribbean pirate Calico Jack is captured by the Royal Navy. (20. October 1720)

Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Stockholm. (21. January 1720)

Count Frederick of Hesse-Kassel is elected King of Sweden by the Riksdag of the Estates, after his consort Ulrika Eleonora abdicated the throne on 29 February. She had been wanting to rule jointly with her husband in the same manner as William and Mary in the British Isles, but after the Riksdag of the Estates said no to this, she chose to abdicate the throne in his favour instead. (24. March 1720)

The Battle of Grengam marks the second important victory of the Russian Navy. (27. July 1720)

Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden abdicates in favour of her husband, who becomes King Frederick I on 24 March. (29. February 1720)

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