Years: 1710 1711 1712 - 1713 - 1714 1715 1716

Decades: 1680s 1690s 1700s - 1710s - 1720s 1730s 1740s

Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century

Contents

1 Events 2 Ongoing events 3 Births 4 Deaths

Events

• April 11 - War of the Spanish Succession: Treaty of Utrecht
• June 23 - French residents of Acadia given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia Canada
• first Orrery built by George Graham

Ongoing events

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

Births

• March - Francis Lewis - a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence
• April 12 - Guillaume Thomas François Raynal - French writer
• March 15 - Nicolas Louis de Lacaille - French astronomer
• May 3 - Alexis Claude Clairault - French mathematician
• September 23 - King Ferdinand VI of Spain
• October 5 - Denis Diderot - French writer and philosopher
• Allan Ramsay - Scottish painter
• Junipero Serra - a Spanish Franciscan

Deaths

• January 8 - Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer
• January 11 - Pierre Jurieu, French protestant leader (b. 1637)
• February 25 - Friedrich I, King in Prussia, Margrave of Brandenburg (b. 1657)
• May 20 - Thomas Sprat, English minister
• Thomas Ellwood, English religious writer
• Elizabeth Barry, English actor