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The following events occurred in Canada in the year 1720.
Incumbents
French Monarch: Louis XVGuéganic (2008), p. 13.
British and Irish Monarch: George IGibbs, G. C. (September 2004; online edn, January 2006) "George I (1660–1727)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 10.1093/ref:odnb/10538. Retrieved 30 July 2007 (subscription required).
Governors
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
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.
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