1720s
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- 1720 - Missionary Johann Ernst Gruendler dies in India. He had arrived there in 1709 with the sponsorship of the Danish Mission Society
- 1721 - Mission San Juan Bautista Malibat in Baja California is abandoned due to the hostility of the Cochimi Indians, as well as to the decimation of the local population by epidemics and a water shortage
- 1722 - Hans Egede goes to Greenland
- 1723 - Robert Millar publishes A History of the Propagation of Christianity and the Overthrow of Paganism
- 1724 - Yongzheng Emperor bans missionary activities outside the Beijing area
- 1725 - Knud Leem arrives as a missionary to the Sami people of Finnmark (Norwegian Arctic)
- 1726 - John Wright, a Quaker missionary to the Native Americans, settles in southeastern Pennsylvania
- 1728 - Institutum Judaicum founded in Halle as first Protestant mission center for Jewish evangelism
- 1729 - Roman Catholic missionary Du Poisson becomes the first victim in the Natchez massacre. On his way to New Orleans, he had been asked to stop and say Mass at the Natchez post. He was killed in front of the altar
