1710
Events Enactment of the world's first copyright legislation, Britain's Act for the Encourage of Learning (short title)
Ongoing events Great Northern War (1700-1721) War of the Spanish Succession (1702-1713)
Births January 4 - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, composer (d. 1736) February 15 - King Louis XV of France (d. 1774) April 15 - William Cullen, professor of medicine and co-founder, Glasgow Medical School (d. 1790) May 14 - King Adolf Frederick of Sweden (d. 1771) November 22 - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer (d. 1784) November 27 - Robert Lowth, Bishop of the Church of England (d. 1787) John Forbes, British general in the French and Indian War (d. 1759)
Deaths September 19 - Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (b. 1644)
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