What is 1710?
{{Year nav|1710}} {{Year in various calendars|1710}} {{Year article header|1710}} == Events == * [[Beijing]] becomes the largest city in the world. * [[April 10]] – The world's first [[copyright]] [[legislation]] became effective, [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Britain's]] ''[[Statute of Anne]]''. * [[June]] – [[Switzerland|Swiss]] and Palatine [[Germany|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, North Carolina|New Bern]], named for von Graffenried's hometown of [[Berne]], Switzerland. * [[June 8]] – The [[Tuscarora (tribe)|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. * [[October 10]] – [[Estonia]] is annexed by [[Russia]]. == Births == * [[January 3]] – [[Richard Gridley]], American Revolutionary soldier (died [[1796]]) * [[January 4]] – [[Giovanni Battista Pergolesi]], Italian composer (died [[1736]]) * [[February 15]] – King [[Louis XV of France]] (died [[1774]]) * [[April 15]] – [[William Cullen]], Scottish physician and chemist (died [[1790]]) * [[April 17]] – [[Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan]], British Freemason (died [[1767]]) * [[April 25]] – [[James Ferguson (1710-1776)|James Ferguson]], Scottish astronomer (died [[1776]]) * [[April 26]] – [[Thomas Reid]], Scottish philosopher (died [[1796]]) * [[April 30]] – [[Johann Kaspar Basselet von La Rosée]], Bavarian general (died [[1795]]) * [[May 14]] – King [[Adolf Frederick of Sweden]] (died [[1771]]) * [[May 16]] – [[William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot]], English politician (died [[1782]]) * [[June 10]] – [[James Short]], Scottish mathematician and optician (died [[1768]]) * [[July 21]] – [[Paul Möhring]], German physician and scientist (died [[1792]]) * [[August 20]] – [[Thomas Simpson]], British mathematician (died [[1761]]) * [[September 3]] – [[Abraham Trembley