Explore 194 historical events from 1710–1719.
The War of the Spanish Succession was a conflict between the European great powers, fought between 1701 and 1714. The death of Charles II of Spain in November 1700 without children…
War of the Spanish Succession: The French under Marshal Villars win a decisive victory over Eugene of Savoy at Denain.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher, philosophe, writer, and composer. His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Age of Enlightenment throughout Europe, a…
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher and polymath (died 1778)
Philipp van Limborch was a Dutch Remonstrant theologian and a fierce opponent of the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza's in the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus. He befriended John Locke,…
Philipp van Limborch, Dutch theologian and author (born 1633)
Andrea Lanzani was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.
Andrea Lanzani, Italian painter (born 1645)
Louis Joseph de Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme, often simply called Vendôme was a French general and Marshal of France. He was one of Louis XIV's most successful commanders in the War of…
Louis Joseph, Duke of Vendôme (born 1654)
Richard Cromwell was an English statesman who served as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland from 1658 to 1659. He was the son of Lord Protector Oliv…
Richard Cromwell, English academic and politician (born 1626)
Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, was an English Tory statesman. During the reign of Charles II of England, he was the leading figure in the English government for roughly five ye…
Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, English politician, Lord High Treasurer (born 1631)
Joshua Barnes, was an English scholar. His work Gerania; a New Discovery of a Little Sort of People, anciently discoursed of, called Pygmies (1675) was a utopian romance.
Joshua Barnes, English historian and scholar (born 1654)
Gregory King was an English officer of arms, engraver, cartographer and statistician.
Gregory King, English genealogist, engraver, and statistician (born 1648)
Jan van der Heyden was a Dutch Baroque-era painter, glass painter, draughtsman and printmaker. Van der Heyden was one of the first Dutch painters to specialize in townscapes and be…
Jan van der Heyden, Dutch painter and illustrator (born 1637)
Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin, was a British Tory statesman. He was a Privy Councillor and Secretary of State for the Northern Department before he attained real power as…
Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin, English politician, Lord High Treasurer (born 1645)
General Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers PC was an English nobleman and soldier who was a senior Army officer in the English and then British Army. The second son of Thomas Savage, …
Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Essex (born 1660)
Giovanni Domenico Cassini was an Italian-French mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and engineer. Cassini was born in Perinaldo, near Imperia, at that time in the County of Nice,…
Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-French mathematician, astronomer, and engineer (born 1625)
The Treaty of the Pruth was signed on the banks of the river Prut between the Ottoman Empire and the Tsardom of Russia on 23 July 1711 ending the Russo-Turkish War of 1710–1713 wit…
The treaty of Pruth between the Ottoman and Russian Empire is signed.
The Quebec expedition, or the Walker expedition to Quebec, was a British attempt to attack Quebec in 1711 in Queen Anne's War, the North American theatre of the War of Spanish Succ…
Britain's Quebec Expedition loses eight ships and almost nine hundred soldiers, sailors and women to rocks at…
Prince Paul II Anton Esterházy de Galántha was a Hungarian prince, soldier and patron of music from the Esterházy family.
Paul II Anton, Prince Esterházy, Austrian soldier (died 1762)
David Hume was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist and essayist who is known for his highly influential system of empiricism, philosophical scepticism and metaphysical nat…
David Hume, Scottish economist, historian, and philosopher (died 1776)
Roger Joseph Boscovich was a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, Jesuit priest, and a polymath from the Republic of Ragusa. He studied an…
Roger Joseph Boscovich, Ragusan physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (died 1787)
Louis Legrand, S.S. was a French Sulpician priest and theologian, and a Doctor of the Sorbonne.
Louis Legrand, French priest and theologian (died 1780)
Sir Richard Glyn, 1st Baronet was a British banker and politician, who together with Joseph Vere and Thomas Hallifax founded the Bank of Vere, Glyn & Hallifax, which evolved into W…
Sir Richard Glyn, 1st Baronet, of Ewell, English banker and politician, Lord Mayor of London (died 1773)
Giovanni Battista Guadagnini was an Italian luthier, regarded as one of the finest craftsmen of string instruments in history. The Guadagnini family was known for their violins, gu…
Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, Italian instrument maker (died 1786)
Georg Wilhelm Richmann was a Russian physicist of Baltic German origin who did pioneering work on electricity, atmospheric electricity, and calorimetry. He died by electrocution in…
Georg Wilhelm Richmann, German-Russian physicist and academic (died 1753)
Lorenz Christoph Mizler von Kolof was a German physician, historian, printer, mathematician, Baroque music composer, and precursor of the Enlightenment in Poland.
Lorenz Christoph Mizler, German physician, mathematician, and historian (died 1778)
William IV was Prince of Orange from birth and the first hereditary stadtholder of all the United Provinces of the Netherlands from 1747 until his death in 1751.
William IV, Prince of Orange (died 1751)