1710

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1710 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1710
MDCCX
Ab urbe condita2463
Armenian calendar1159
ԹՎ ՌՃԾԹ
Assyrian calendar6460
Balinese saka calendar1631–1632
Bengali calendar1117
Berber calendar2660
British Regnal year8 Ann. 1 – 9 Ann. 1
Buddhist calendar2254
Burmese calendar1072
Byzantine calendar7218–7219
Chinese calendar己丑年 (Earth Ox)
4406 or 4346
    — to —
庚寅年 (Metal Tiger)
4407 or 4347
Coptic calendar1426–1427
Discordian calendar2876
Ethiopian calendar1702–1703
Hebrew calendar5470–5471
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1766–1767
 - Shaka Samvat1631–1632
 - Kali Yuga4810–4811
Holocene calendar11710
Igbo calendar710–711
Iranian calendar1088–1089
Islamic calendar1121–1122
Japanese calendarHōei 7
(宝永７年)
Javanese calendar1633–1634
Julian calendarGregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar4043
Minguo calendar202 before ROC
民前202年
Nanakshahi calendar242
Thai solar calendar2252–2253
Tibetan calendar阴土牛年
(female Earth-Ox)
1836 or 1455 or 683
    — to —
阳金虎年
(male Iron-Tiger)
1837 or 1456 or 684
February 28: Battle of Helsingborg.
December 11: Battle of Villaviciosa
Map of North America in 1710

1710 (MDCCX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1710th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 710th year of the 2nd millennium, the 10th year of the 18th century, and the 1st year of the 1710s decade. As of the start of 1710, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

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–March[]

  • January 1 – In Germany, Cölln is merged with Alt-Berlin by Frederick I of Prussia to form Berlin.
  • January 4 – Robert Balfour, 5th Lord Balfour of Burleigh, two days before he is due to be executed for murder, escapes from the Edinburgh Tolbooth by exchanging clothes with his sister.
  • February 17 – Mauritius, a Dutch colony since 1638, is abandoned by the Dutch.
  • February 28 (Swedish calendar) – Battle of Helsingborg: Fourteen thousand Danish invaders, under Jørgen Rantzau, are decisively defeated by an equally large Swedish army, under Magnus Stenbock.
  • March 1 – The Sacheverell riots start in London with an attack on an elegant Presbyterian meeting-house in Lincoln's Inn Fields, followed by riots through the West End of London.
  • March 6 – The ancient Roman Pillar of the Boatmen is found during the construction of a crypt under the nave of Notre-Dame de Paris.

April–June[]

  • April 5 – Pylyp Orlyk, a Cossack of Ukraine, is elected as the Hetman of the Zaporizhian Host and immediately issues the Pacts and Constitutions of Rights and Freedoms of the Zaporizhian Host.
  • 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]
  • May 6 – The South Sea Company begins.[3]
  • 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.
  • June 16 – Köprülüzade Numan Pasha becomes the grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire.
  • June 24 – In the Isle of Man, Manx coins become legal tender.

July–September[]

  • July 27 – The Battle of Almenar takes place in the Iberian theatre of the War of the Spanish Succession.
  • August 2 – British Royal Navy 90-gun ship HMS Vanguard is relaunched from Chatham; Vanguard sank in Chatham Dockyard in the Great Storm of 1703, but was raised in 1704 for rebuilding.
  • 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.[4]
  • August 24 – Total eclipse of the sun is visible at 36°30′S 105°06′W / 36.5°S 105.1°W / -36.5; -105.1.
  • September 7 – In Jonathan Swift's satirical Gulliver's Travels, fictional Gulliver sets off on his fourth and final journey, a voyage to the Land of the Houyhnhnms.
  • September 26 – Great Northern War – Capitulation of Livonia: the Swedish garrison in Riga surrenders, ending Swedish rule in modern Latvia.

October–December[]

  • October – The start of the Mascate War (aka the War of the Peddlers) between two rival mercantile groups the Zillioto family and the Astrid family in colonial Brazil.
  • October 4 – Great Northern War – the Battle of Køge Bay between Denmark and Norway has an indecisive outcome.
  • October 5 – October 13 British forces under Francis Nicholson conduct the successful Siege of Port Royal against a French Acadian garrison and the Wabanaki Confederacy at the Acadian capital, Port Royal, marking the start of British control of what became Nova Scotia.
  • October 10 – Great Northern War – Capitulation of Estonia: the Swedish garrison in Reval (Tallinn) surrenders, ending Swedish rule in Estonia.
  • October 11 – The Battle of Rahon is fought between Sikhs and Mughal Empire.
  • October 13 – Queen Anne's War – Siege of Port Royal: The French surrender, giving the British permanent possession of Nova Scotia.
  • November 30 – The first visit to the Pacific islands of Palau is made by a Jesuit expedition led by Francisco Padilla; unfortunately, the ship is driven to Mindanao by a storm, leaving two priests stranded.
  • December 8 – War of the Spanish Succession – Battle of Brihuega: An outnumbered British force under James Stanhope is forced to surrender.
  • December 10 – War of the Spanish Succession – Battle of Villaviciosa: The indecisive battle between retreating Austrian-Dutch forces and a Franco-Spanish army is fought out.
  • December 10 – The Battle of Lohgarh takes place between Sikh forces and the Mughal army.

Date unknown[]

  • In Sweden, the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala is founded as the Collegium curiosorum.
  • Explorer Juan Arias Diaz becomes the first non-Incan visitor to Choquequirao, an Inca site in Peru.
  • John Smithwick begins brewing Smithwick's ale at Kilkenny, Ireland (St. Francis Abbey Brewery).[5]
  • Alexis Littré, in his treatise Diverses observations anatomiques,[6] is the first physician to suggest the possibility of performing a lumbar colostomy for an obstruction of the colon.
  • Beijing becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Istanbul.[7]
  • Jacob Christoph Le Blon, working in Amsterdam, invents a three-color printing process with red, blue, and yellow plates, a precursor of the modern CMYK printing process.


Births[]

Jakob Langebek born 23 January
Louis XV of France born 15 February
György Klimó born 4 April
Peter Anton von Verschaffelt born 8 May
John Cruger Jr. born 18 July
William Heberden born 13 August
Abraham Trembley born 3 September
Anne-Marie du Boccage born 22 October
Adam Gottlob Moltke born 10 November
Paolo Renier born 21 November
Carlo Bertinazzi born 2 December

January–March[]

April–June[]

July–September[]

  • July 4 – Thomas Hay, 9th Earl of Kinnoull (d. 1787)
  • July 10 – Robert O'Callaghan, politician (d. 1761)
  • July 11 – Sir John Morgan, 4th Baronet (d. 1767)
  • July 18 – John Cruger Jr., speaker of the Province of New York assembly, Mayor of New York City (d. 1791)
  • July 21 – Paul Möhring, German physician and scientist (d. 1792)
  • July 23 – Jonathan Belcher, British-American lawyer (d. 1776)
  • July 26 – John Lambton, senior officer in the British Army and MP (d. 1794)
  • July 31 – Jacob Houblon, British landowner and Tory politician (d. 1770)
  • August 6 – Frances Jones, colonist (d. 1785)
  • August 10 – Princess Luise Dorothea of Saxe-Meiningen, member of German royalty (d. 1767)
  • August 13
  • August 14 – Corbyn Morris, English official and economic writer (d. 1779)
  • August 18 – Landon Carter, American planter from Lancaster County (d. 1778)
  • August 19 – Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont (d. 1763)
  • August 20 – Thomas Simpson, British mathematician (d. 1761)
  • August 22 – Johann August Nahl, German sculptor and plasterer (d. 1781)
  • August 27
    • Joseph Tiefenthaler, Jesuit missionary, one of the earliest European geographers to write about India (d. 1785)
    • Giuseppe Vasi, Italian engraver and architect (d. 1782)
  • August 28 – Pierre Augustin Boissier de Sauvages, French naturalist, researcher in provençal dialect and encyclopédist (d. 1795)
  • September 3 – Abraham Trembley, Genevan naturalist (d. 1784)
  • September 9 – Friedrich Rudolf von Rothenburg, lieutenant general (d. 1751)
  • September 11 – Louis Frederick of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Prince, General Field Marshal in the Bavarian army (d. 1759)
  • September 22 – Georg Matthias Bose, famous early experimenter in electrostatics (d. 1761)
  • September 24 – William Bull II, landowner (d. 1791)
  • September 25
  • September 29
    • Johann Andreas Michael Nagel, German Hebrew scholar and Orientalist (d. 1788)
    • Pompilio Maria Pirrotti, Italian Roman Catholic priest and a professed member of the Piarists (d. 1766)
  • September 30 – John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, British statesman (d. 1771)

October–December[]

  • October 3 – Jean Robert Tronchin, Attorney General, member of the State Council of Geneva (d. 1793)
  • October 7 – François-Josué de La Corne Dubreuil, officer in the colonial regular troops of New France and (d. 1759)
  • October 11 – Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain, French sculptor who tempered a neoclassical style with Rococo charm and softness (d. 1795)
  • October 12 – Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of the Colony and the state of Connecticut (d. 1785)
  • October 13 – Alban Butler, English Roman Catholic priest and hagiographer (d. 1773)
  • October 16 – András Hadik, Austro-Hungarian general (d. 1790)
  • October 19 – Franz Karl Ludwig von Wied zu Neuwied, lieutenant general in Frederick the Great's army (d. 1765)
  • October 22 – Anne-Marie du Boccage, French writer (d. 1802)
  • October 26 – Lukrecija Bogašinović Budmani, Serb-catholic poet (d. 1784)
  • October 31 – Ole Tidemand, Norwegian theologian and priest (d. 1778)
  • November 2 – Andrea Negroni, Italian Cardinal who was Cardinal-Deacon of the titular Church of Santi Vito (d. 1789)
  • November 4 – Charles-François Tarieu de La Naudière, officer in the colonial regular troops and seigneur in Lower Canada (d. 1776)
  • November 6 – David McGregore, Presbyterian minister and member of the Colonial America Christian Clergy (d. 1777)
  • November 8 – Sarah Fielding, English author, sister of the novelist Henry Fielding (d. 1768)
  • November 10 – Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman (d. 1792)
  • November 13 – Charles Simon Favart, French playwright (d. 1792)
  • November 19
    • Johann Wilhelm Hoffmann, German historian (d. 1739)
    • Giovanni Andrea Lazzarini, Italian painter (d. 1801)
  • November 21
    • Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky, Prussian merchant with a successful trade in trinkets (d. 1775)
    • Paolo Renier, Venetian statesman (d. 1789)
  • November 22 – Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer, organist, harpsichordist (d. 1784)
  • November 27 – Robert Lowth, English bishop and grammarian (d. 1787)
  • November 28 – Henry Hyde, Viscount Cornbury (d. 1753)
  • December 1 – Michele Marieschi, Italian painter and engraver (d. 1744)
  • December 2 – Carlo Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (d. 1783)
  • December 5 – Nicolò Porta, Italian painter of the late-Baroque period (d. 1784)
  • December 15 – Francesco Zahra, Maltese painter (d. 1773)
  • December 24 – Tibout Regters, portrait painter from the Northern Netherlands (d. 1768)
  • December 28 – Henrik Teofilus Scheffer, Swedish chemist (d. 1759)
  • date unknown – Ahmad bin Said al-Busaidi, first ruler of the Al Said Dynasty of Oman (d. 1783)

Deaths[]

Ole Rømer

References[]

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  2. ^ "Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center". Archived from the original on November 21, 2007. Retrieved December 16, 2007.
  3. ^ Thomas Tegg (1835). A Dictionary of Chronology ... Fourth edition [of "Chronology, or the Historian's Companion"], considerably enlarged. p. 321.
  4. ^ Kamen, Henry (2000). Felipe V, el rey que reinó dos veces. Historia (3rd ed.). Madrid: Temas de Hoy. pp. 96–97. ISBN 8478808477.
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  6. ^ Littre, A (1710). "Diverses observations anatomiques". Hist Acad Roy Sci. 17: 30–31.
  7. ^ 1987 estimate. Rosenberg, Matt T. "Largest Cities Through History". About.com Geography. Retrieved August 20, 2012.
  8. ^ Baker, Christopher, ed. (2002). "Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista (1710-1736)". Absolutism and the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1720: A Biographical Dictionary. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. p. 297. ISBN 978-0-313-30827-7.
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