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| 1720 |
| | | Shares in the South Sea Company rise rapidly and collapse within the year, in the so-called South Sea Bubble | |
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| 1721 |
| | | Robert Walpole becomes Britain's chief minister and holds the post for an unrivalled span of twenty-one years | |
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| 1724 |
| | | General Wade, commander-in-chief of North Britain, begins an impressive programme of road construction in the Scottish Highlands | |
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| 1726 |
| | | Jonathan Swift launches his hero on a series of bitterly satirical adventures in Gulliver's Travels | |
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| 1727 |
| | | On the death of his father, George I, George II becomes king of Great Britain | |
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| 1727 |
| | | Handel composes Zadok the Priest for the crowning of George II, and it has been sung at every subsequent British coronation | |
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| c. 1730 |
| | | John and Charles Wesley form a Holy Club at Oxford which becomes the cradle of Methodism | |
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| 1731 |
| | | The Flemish-born sculptor Michael Rysbrack creates a momument to Newton in Westminster Abbey | |
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| 1731 |
| | | English maker of telescopes John Hadley designs the instrument which evolves into the standard sextant used at sea | |
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| 1732 |
| | | With the performance of Esther Handel taps a rich new vein, the English oratorio | |
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