Years 1720

Of the sailors originating in the port of Macassar is provided in Trépang , or sea-slug, on the northern coast of the Australia, in Ground of Arnhem and on the coast of the Kimberley, to feed the Chinese market.
Epidemic of plague of Marseilles.

Bad harvests in Japan as from 1721. Rice does not become ripe. Finances of the bakufu crumble.

agricultural Growth in Spain.
the rise in the prices of the cereals (1720 - 1730) encourages the production for export with the Denmark.
exceptional Softness of the Swedish winters between 1721 and 1735, which supports harvests of grain, the pastures, the employment of the men, the public health and the lengthening of the life. The population increases.
commercial and maritime Decline of the United Provinces: Baltic wood (2/3 in 1720,1/5 in 1740), wine of the the Rhine (96% in 1710,40% in 1750), herring of the Baltic (60% in 1700,15% in 1740).

the Compagnie Dutchwoman of the Western Indies loses its positions in India and China.
the production of paper passes from 150 000 oars in 1730 with 80 000 in 1750.
the number of manufactures of Tabac of Amsterdam passes from 30 in 1720 to 8 in 1751.
naval constructions crumble during the century.
Leyde produced 139 000 fabric parts in 1671, 54 000 in 1750, 29 000 in 1795.
the population stagnates to 2 million inhabitant and is reduced to poverty.
the too high salary costs, the commercial and industrial rise of the European powers like the Great Britain and the France are at the origin of this decline.

Poland - Lithuania: The wars of the 17th century, by ruining the peasants, made decrease the surface of tenures. The great landowners repurchased the grounds of the plowmen, who are replaced by “closiers”, who work with their arms. The rural population is proletarianized, in particular in the areas of Chełm, Łwow and Sanok, where the peasants are to oblige to work on the reserve of the lord to survive. Serfdom reaches its culminating point in first half of the 18th century. Three elements characterize it: attachment with the glèbe (personal constraint); the limitation of the rights on the ground and the obligation of drudgeries on the reserve of the lord; the limitation of the legal rights (the lord with authority to judge the serfs). The reserve seigneuriale, exploited by the drudgery of the serfs and the employees, develops in Ukraine because of the outlets on the Black Sea; it is very limited in the mountainous regions of the Carpates. The drudgery was weighed down during the XVIIe century, spending 26 days to 312 days per annum for certain exploitations. In this case, the serfs cotisent themselves to pay a man especially planned for this work. At the XVIIIe century, reforms replace in certain villages of Lithuania the drudgery, considered to be not very productive, by silver royalties which make it possible to develop the remunerated work of farm laborers; at the same time one parcels out the reserve, given in pleasure with the help of a third of harvest.

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Simple: 1720s

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