1710

Year 1710 (MDCCX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar. In the Swedish calendar it was a common year starting on Saturday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar.

Events

January–June

• Jørgen Rantzau are decisively defeated by an equally large Swedish army under Magnus Stenbock.
• April 10 – The world's first copyright legislation, Britain's Statute of Anne, becomes effective.^[1]
• April 19 – Anne, Queen of Great Britain, meets the Four Mohawk Kings.^[2]
• June – Protestant Swiss and German Palatines under the leadership of Christoph von Graffenried travel to Bath County in the Province of Carolina. The settlers displace the native town of Chattoka and found New Bern, named for von Graffenried's hometown of Bern, Switzerland.
• June 8 – The Tuscarora nation sends a petition to the Province of Pennsylvania, protesting the seizure of their lands and enslavement of their people by citizens of the Province of Carolina.

July–December

• August 20 – War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Saragossa: The Spanish-Bourbon army commanded by the Marquis de Bay is soundly defeated by the forces of the Habsburg Monarchy under Guido Starhemberg and their allies.^[3]
• October 13 – Queen Anne's War: The French surrender ending the Siege of Port Royal gives the British permanent possession of Nova Scotia.

Date unknown

• In Sweden, the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala is founded as the Collegium curiosorum.
• John Smithwick begins brewing Smithwick's ale at Kilkenny, Ireland (St. Francis Abbey Brewery).^[4]
• Beijing becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Istanbul.^[5]

Births

• January 3 – Richard Gridley, American Revolutionary soldier (d. 1796)
• January 4 – Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer (d. 1736)
• February 1 – Konrad Ernst Ackermann, German actor (d. 1771)
• February 15 – King Louis XV of France (d. 1774)
• April 15 – William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist (d. 1790)
• April 17 – Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan, British Freemason (d. 1767)
• April 25 – James Ferguson (Scottish astronomer) (d. 1776)
• April 26 – Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher (d. 1796)
• April 30 – Johann Kaspar Basselet von La Rosée, Bavarian general (d. 1795)
• May 14 – Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden (d. 1771)
• May 16 – William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician (d. 1782)
• June 10 – James Short, Scottish mathematician and optician (d. 1768)
• July 21 – Paul Möhring, German physician and scientist (d. 1792)
• August 20 – Thomas Simpson, British mathematician (d. 1761)
• September 3 – Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist (d. 1784)
• September 30 – John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, British statesman (d. 1771)
• October 12 – Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of the Colony and the state of Connecticut (d. 1785)
• October 16 – András Hadik, Austro-Hungarian general (d. 1790)
• October 24 – Alban Butler, English Catholic priest and writer (d. 1773)
• November 8 – Sarah Fielding, English writer (d. 1768)
• November 10 – Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman (d. 1792)
• November 13 – Charles Simon Favart, French dramatist (d. 1792)
• November 22 – Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer (d. 1784)
• November 27 – Robert Lowth, English bishop and grammarian (d. 1787)
• December 2 – Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (d. 1783)

Deaths

• January 16 – Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (b. 1675)
• 1638)
• February 16 – Esprit Fléchier, French writer and Bishop of Nîmes (b. 1632)
• February 25 – Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut, French explorer (b. c. 1639)
• March 4 – Louis III, Prince of Condé (b. 1668)
• April 28 – Thomas Betterton, English actor (b. c. 1635)
• May 13 – Heinrich, Duke of Saxe-Römhild (b. 1650)
• June 1 – David Mitchell, British admiral (b. 1642)
• June 4 – James Stuart, 1st Earl of Bute
• June 7 – Louise de La Vallière, mistress of King Louis XIV of France (b. 1644)
• September 19 – Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (b. 1644)

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