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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 4, 1710 – Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer (d. 1736)
• February 15, 1710 – King Louis XV of France (d. 1774)
• 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)
• April 26, 1710 – Thomas Reid, British philosopher (d. 1796)
• April 30, 1710 – Johann Kaspar Basselet von La Rosée, Bavarian general (d. 1795)
• May 14, 1710 – King Adolf Frederick of Sweden (d. 1771)
• June 10, 1710 – James Short, Scottish mathematician (d. 1768)
• June 21, 1710 – James Short, British mathematician (d. 1768)
• August 20, 1710 – Thomas Simpson, British mathematician (d. 1761)
• September 3, 1710 – Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist (d. 1784)
• September 30, 1710 – John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, British statesman (d. 1771)
• October 12, 1710 – Jonathan Trumbull, American politician and 16th Governor of Connecticut (d. 1785)
• October 16, 1710 – Andreas Hadik, Austro-Hungarian general (d. 1790)
• October 24, 1710 – Alban Butler, English Catholic priest and writer (d. 1773)
• November 8, 1710 – Sarah Fielding, English writer (d. 1768)
• November 13, 1710 – Charles Simon Favart, French dramatist (d. 1792)
• November 22, 1710 – Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer (d. 1784)
• November 27, 1710 – Robert Lowth, British bishop (d. 1787)

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