Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades: 1680s  1690s  1700s  – 1710s –  1720s  1730s  1740s
Years: 1707 1708 1709 – 1710 – 1711 1712 1713
1710 in topic:
Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –
Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science
Countries:   Canada – Great Britain –
Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors
Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
Births – Deaths – Works

Year 1710 (MDCCX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday [1] of the 11-day slower Julian calendar. Year 1710 of the Swedish calendar was a common year starting on Saturday, one day ahead of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1710

January–June

• April 10 – The world's first copyright legislation, Britain's Statute of Anne, becomes effective.
• February 28 – Battle of Helsingborg: Fourteen thousand Danish invaders under Jørgen Rantzau are decisively defeated by an equally large Swedish army under Magnus Stenbock.

• June – Swiss and Palatine German Protestants 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 Berne, 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.

Undated

• Estimation: Beijing becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Istanbul.[1]
• St. Francis Abbey Brewery, Kilkenny, Ireland is founded by John Smithwick, the home of Smithwick's Ale.

Ongoing events

• Great Northern War (1700–1721)
• War of the Spanish Succession (1702–1713)

Births

1710 in other calendars Gregorian calendar 1710
MDCCX
Ab urbe condita 2463
Armenian calendar 1159
ԹՎ ՌՃԾԹ
Bahá'í calendar -134 – -133
Bengali calendar 1117
Berber calendar 2660
Buddhist calendar 2254
Burmese calendar 1072
Byzantine calendar 7218 – 7219
Chinese calendar 己丑年十二月初二日
(4346/4406-12-2) 庚寅年十一月十二日
(4347/4407-11-12)
Coptic calendar 1426 – 1427
Ethiopian calendar 1702 – 1703
Hebrew calendar 5470 – 5471
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 1765 – 1766
 - Shaka Samvat 1632 – 1633
 - Kali Yuga 4811 – 4812
Holocene calendar 11710
Iranian calendar 1088 – 1089
Islamic calendar 1121 – 1122
Japanese calendar Hōei 7
(宝永7年)
Korean calendar 4043
Thai solar calendar 2253

• January 3 – Richard Gridley, American Revolutionary soldier (d. 1796)
• January 4 – Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer (d. 1736)
• 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 – King Adolf Frederick 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 – Andreas 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)
• January 21 – Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (b. 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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