1710 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1710?
- February 28, 1710 – In the Battle of Helsingborg, 14,000 Danish invaders under Jørgen Rantzau are decisively defeated by an equally sized Swedish force under Magnus Stenbock.
- April 10, 1710 – The Statute of Anne, the first law regulating copyright, enters into force in Great Britain.
- August 20, 1710 – War of the Spanish Succession: a multinational army led by the Austrian commander Guido Starhemberg defeats the Spanish-Bourbon army commanded by the Marquis de Bay in the Battle of Saragossa.
- October 13, 1710 – Port Royal, the capital of French Acadia, falls in a siege by British forces.
Who Were Born In The Year 1710?
- January 3, 1710 – Richard Gridley, American Revolutionary soldier (d. 1796)
- January 4, 1710 – Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer (d. 1736)
- February 15, 1710 – King Louis XV of France (d. 1774)
- March 12, 1710 – Thomas Arne, English composer (d. 1778)
- April 15, 1710 – William Cullen, Scottish physician (d. 1790)
- April 17, 1710 – Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan, British Freemason (d. 1767)
- April 25, 1710 – James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer (d. 1776)
- May 14, 1710 – King Adolf Frederick of Sweden (d. 1771)
- May 16, 1710 – William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician (d. 1782)
- June 10, 1710 – James Short, Scottish mathematician (d. 1768)
- June 21, 1710 – James Short, British mathematician (d. 1768)
- July 21, 1710 – Paul Möhring, German physician (d. 1792)
- September 3, 1710 – Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist (d. 1784)
- October 12, 1710 – Jonathan Trumbull, American politician and 16th Governor of Connecticut (d. 1785)
- October 24, 1710 – Alban Butler, English Catholic priest and writer (d. 1773)
- November 8, 1710 – Sarah Fielding, English writer (d. 1768)
- November 10, 1710 – Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman (d. 1792)
- November 22, 1710 – Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer (d. 1784)
- November 27, 1710 – Robert Lowth, British bishop (d. 1787)
- December 2, 1710 – Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (d. 1783)
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