1720 in Canada
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The following events occurred in Canada in the year 1720.
Incumbents
[edit]Governors
[edit]- Governor General of New France: Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil
- Colonial Governor of Louisiana: Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville
- Governor of Nova Scotia: John Doucett
- Governor of Placentia: Samuel Gledhill
Events
[edit]- 1720-60 - The Chickasaw fight the French and the Choctaw in the Southeast.
- c. 1720: French forts along the Mississippi River spread northward from New Orleans.
- To compensate for their loss, the French build a fortress at Louisbourg on the southeast tip of Cape Breton Island.
References
[edit]- ^ Guéganic (2008), p. 13.
- ^ Gibbs, G. C. (September 2004; online edn, January 2006) "George I (1660–1727)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/10538. Retrieved 30 July 2007 (subscription required).
