1720 in Canada

Incumbents

• French Monarch: Louis XV
• British and Irish Monarch: George I

  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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