Editing 1710 (section)

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 1]] &ndash; In [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussia]], [[Cölln]] is merged with [[Alt-Berlin]] by [[Frederick I of Prussia|Frederick I]] to form [[Berlin]].
* [[January 4]] &ndash; [[Robert Balfour, 5th Lord Balfour of Burleigh]], two days before he is due to be executed for murder, escapes from the [[Old Tolbooth, Edinburgh|Edinburgh Tolbooth]] by exchanging clothes with his sister.
* [[February 17]] &ndash; [[Mauritius]], a [[History of Mauritius#Dutch colonization (1638–1710)|Dutch colony]] since 1638, is abandoned by the Dutch.
* [[February 28]] (Swedish calendar) February 27 (Julian). March 10 (Gregorian) &ndash; [[Battle of Helsingborg]]: Fourteen thousand Danish invaders, under [[Jørgen Rantzau]], are decisively defeated by an equally large Swedish army, under [[Magnus Stenbock]].
* [[March 1]] &ndash; The [[Sacheverell riots]] start in London with an attack on an elegant Presbyterian meeting-house in [[Lincoln's Inn Fields]], followed by riots through the West End of London.
* [[March 6]] &ndash; The ancient Roman [[Pillar of the Boatmen]] is found during the construction of a crypt under the nave of [[Notre-Dame de Paris]].

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 5]] &ndash; [[Pylyp Orlyk]], a [[Cossack]] of [[Ukraine]], is elected as the Hetman of the [[Zaporizhian Host]] and immediately issues the ''[[Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk|Pacts and Constitutions of Rights and Freedoms of the Zaporizhian Host]]''.
* [[April 10]] &ndash; The world's first [[copyright]] legislation, [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Britain's]] ''[[Statute of Anne]]'', becomes effective.<ref name="Pocket On This Day">{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}</ref>
* [[April 19]] &ndash; [[Anne, Queen of Great Britain]], meets the [[Four Mohawk Kings]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pequotmuseum.org/Home/CrossPaths/CrossPathsFall2002/JohnSimonsEngravingsoftheFourKingsMoreThanMeetstheEye.htm|title=Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center|access-date=2007-12-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071121184743/http://www.pequotmuseum.org/Home/CrossPaths/CrossPathsFall2002/JohnSimonsEngravingsoftheFourKingsMoreThanMeetstheEye.htm |archive-date=November 21, 2007<!--Added by DASHBot-->}}</ref>
* [[April 18]] &ndash; [[Thomas Hancorne (1642 – 1731)|Thomas Hancorne]] gives the [[Swansea|county of Swansea]]'s assize sermon, "The right way to honour and happiness" in which he espouses his [[High church|High Church]] beliefs.
* [[May 6]] &ndash; The [[South Sea Company]] begins.<ref name="Tegg1835">{{cite book|author=Thomas Tegg|title=A Dictionary of Chronology ... Fourth edition [of "Chronology, or the Historian's Companion"], considerably enlarged|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CKRfAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA321|year=1835|page=321}}</ref>
* [[May 12]] &ndash; [[Battle of Chappar Chiri|Battle of Sirhind]]: An army of 70,000 [[Sikhism|Sikh rebels]], led by [[Banda Singh Bahadur]] defeat a force of 25,000 [[Mughal Empire]] troops commanded by [[Wazir Khan (Sirhind)|General Wazir Khan]], who is killed in the combat. The battle takes place near [[Sirhind-Fategarh|Sirhind]] in what is now the Indian [[Punjab (India)|state of Punjab]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=06k5ygAACAAJ|title=Dictionary of Battles and Sieges|page=948|author= Jacques, Tony|year=2007|publisher=Greenwood Press|isbn=978-0-313-33536-5}}</ref>
* [[June 8]] &ndash; The [[Tuscarora people|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.
* [[June 16]] &ndash; [[Köprülüzade Numan Pasha]] becomes the [[Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire|grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire]].
* [[June 24]] &ndash; In the [[Isle of Man]], [[Manx pound|Manx coins]] become legal tender.
* [[June]] &ndash; [[Protestant]] Swiss and [[German Palatines]], 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 [[Bern]] in Switzerland.

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 27]] &ndash; The [[Battle of Almenar]] takes place in the Iberian theatre of the [[War of the Spanish Succession]].
* [[August 2]] &ndash; British Royal Navy 90-gun ship [[HMS Vanguard (1678)|HMS ''Vanguard'']] is relaunched from [[Chatham, Kent|Chatham]]; ''Vanguard'' sank in [[Chatham Dockyard]] in the [[Great Storm of 1703]], but was raised in 1704 for rebuilding.
* [[August 20]] &ndash; [[War of the Spanish Succession]] &ndash; [[Battle of Saragossa]]: The [[Bourbon Spain|Spanish-Bourbon]] army, commanded by the [[Alexandre Maître, Marquis de Bay|Marquis de Bay]], is soundly defeated by the forces of the [[Habsburg monarchy]], under [[Guido Starhemberg]] and their allies.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kamen|first=Henry|title=Felipe V, el rey que reinó dos veces|publisher=Temas de Hoy|series=Historia|location=Madrid|year=2000|edition=3rd|isbn=8478808477|pages=96–97}}</ref>
* [[August 24]] &ndash; Total eclipse of the sun is visible at {{coord|36.5|S|105.1|W}}.
* [[September 7]] &ndash; In [[Jonathan Swift]]'s satirical ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]'', fictional Gulliver sets off on his fourth and final journey, a voyage to the Land of the [[Houyhnhnm]]s.
* [[September 26]] &ndash; [[Great Northern War]] &ndash; [[Capitulation of Estonia and Livonia|Capitulation of Livonia]]: the [[Sweden|Swedish]] garrison in [[Riga]] surrenders, ending [[Swedish Livonia|Swedish rule in modern Latvia]].

===October&ndash;December===
* [[October]] &ndash; The start of the [[Mascate War]] (aka the War of the Peddlers) between two rival mercantile groups the Zillioto family and the Astrid family in [[colonial Brazil]].
* [[October 4]] &ndash; [[Great Northern War]] &ndash; the [[Battle of Køge Bay (1710)|Battle of Køge Bay]] between Denmark and Norway has an indecisive outcome.
* [[October 5]] – [[October 13]] British forces under [[Francis Nicholson]] conduct the successful [[Siege of Port Royal (1710)|Siege of Port Royal]] against a French [[Acadian]] garrison and the [[Wabanaki Confederacy]] at the Acadian capital, [[Port-Royal (Acadia)|Port Royal]], marking the start of British control of what became [[Nova Scotia]].
* [[October 10]] &ndash; [[Great Northern War]] &ndash; [[Capitulation of Estonia and Livonia|Capitulation of Estonia]]: the [[Sweden|Swedish]] garrison in [[Tallinn|Reval]] (Tallinn) surrenders, ending [[Duchy of Estonia (1561–1721)|Swedish rule in Estonia]].
* [[October 11]] &ndash; The [[Battle of Rahon (1710)|Battle of Rahon]] is fought between Sikhs and [[Mughal Empire]].
* [[October 13]] &ndash; [[Queen Anne's War]] &ndash; [[Siege of Port Royal (1710)|Siege of Port Royal]]: The French surrender, giving the British permanent possession of [[Nova Scotia]].
* [[November 30]] &ndash; The first visit to the Pacific islands of [[Palau]] is made by a Jesuit expedition led by Francisco Padilla; unfortunately, the ship is driven to [[Mindanao]] by a storm, leaving two priests stranded.
* [[December 8]] &ndash; [[War of the Spanish Succession]] &ndash; [[Battle of Brihuega]]: An outnumbered British force under [[James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope|James Stanhope]] is forced to surrender.
* [[December 10]]
** [[War of the Spanish Succession]] &ndash; [[Battle of Villaviciosa]]: The indecisive battle between retreating Austrian-Dutch forces and a Franco-Spanish army is fought out.
** The [[Battle of Lohgarh]] takes place between Sikh forces and the Mughal army.

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* In [[Sweden]], the [[Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala]] is founded as the ''Collegium curiosorum''.
* Explorer Juan Arias Diaz becomes the first non-Incan visitor to [[Choquequirao]], an Inca site in Peru.
* John Smithwick begins brewing ''[[Smithwick's]] [[Irish red ale|ale]]'' at [[Kilkenny]], Ireland (St. Francis Abbey Brewery).<ref>{{cite web|title=Smithwick's History|url=http://www.smithwicks.ie/SMX-History.html|publisher=Smithwick's|access-date=2012-07-16}}</ref>
* [[Alexis Littré]], in his treatise ''Diverses observations anatomiques'',<ref>{{cite journal|title=Diverses observations anatomiques|last1=Littre|first1=A|journal=Hist Acad Roy Sci|volume=17|pages=30–31|year=1710}}</ref> is the first physician to suggest the possibility of performing a [[lumbar]] [[colostomy]] for an obstruction of the [[colon (anatomy)|colon]].
* [[Jacob Christoph Le Blon]], working in [[Amsterdam]], invents a [[color printing|three-color printing]] process with red, blue, and yellow plates, a precursor of the modern CMYK printing process.
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