Explore 171 historical events from 1710–1719.
Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford was a British courtier and politician who served as the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1765.
Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (died 1794)
Thomas Lewis was an Irish-American surveyor, lawyer, politician and pioneer of early western Virginia. He was among the signers of the Fairfax Resolves, represented Augusta County …
Thomas Lewis, Irish-born American surveyor and lawyer (died 1790)
Field Marshal Sir George Howard KB PC was a British Army officer and politician. After commanding the 3rd Regiment of Foot at the Battle of Fontenoy in May 1745 during the War of t…
George Howard, English field marshal and politician, Governor of Minorca (died 1796)
Saverio Bettinelli was an Italian Jesuit priest and writer. He became known as a polymath, dramatist, polemicist, poet, and literary critic. He was a friend of some of the leading …
Saverio Bettinelli, Italian poet, playwright, and critic (died 1808)
John Canton was a British physicist. He was born in Middle Street Stroud, Gloucestershire, to a weaver, John Canton and Esther. As a schoolboy, he became the first person to determ…
John Canton, English physicist and academic (died 1772)
Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Haldimand, KB was a Swiss army officer and colonial administrator best known for his service in the British Army in North America during the Seven …
Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-English general and politician, 22nd Governor of Quebec (died 1791)
Mary of Modena was Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland as the second wife of James VII and II. A devout Roman Catholic, Mary married the widower James, who was then the younger …
Mary of Modena (born 1658)
Arnold Joost van Keppel, 1st Earl of Albemarle was a Dutch States Army officer who fought for William III of England and became the first Earl of Albemarle. He had a very close rel…
Arnold van Keppel, 1st Earl of Albemarle, Dutch-English general (born 1670)
Alexei Petrovich Romanov, was the Tsarevich of Russia, the eldest son of Tsar Peter I and his first wife, Eudoxia Lopukhina.
Alexei Petrovich, Russian tsarevich (born 1690)
Étienne Baluze, known also as Stephanus Baluzius, was a French scholar and historiographer.
Étienne Baluze, French scholar and academic (born 1630)
Rene Lepage de Sainte-Claire is the lord-founder of the town of Rimouski, Quebec, Canada.
René Lepage de Sainte-Claire, French-Canadian founder of Rimouski (born 1656)
An earthquake occurred on June 19, 1718, in Tongwei County, Gansu Province, Qing dynasty, present-day China. The estimated surface wave magnitude (Ms ) 7.5 earthquake was designate…
An earthquake on the Tibetan Plateau led to the deaths of more than 73,000 people
William Penn was an English writer, theologian, religious thinker, and influential Quaker who founded the Province of Pennsylvania. An advocate of democracy and religious freedom, …
William Penn, English businessman and philosopher, founded the Province of Pennsylvania (born 1644)
George I was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1 August 1714 and ruler of the Electorate of Hanover within the Holy Roman Empire from 23 January 1698 until his death in 1727. …
King George I of Great Britain sails down the River Thames with a barge of 50 musicians, where George Frideric…
John Collins, was an American politician and a Founding Father of the United States who, as a member of the Continental Congress, signed the Articles of Confederation. He was the t…
John Collins, American lawyer and politician, 3rd Governor of Rhode Island (died 1795)
Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz was a Czech composer and violinist. Stamitz is considered the founding father of the Mannheim school, a composition style that his two surviving sons, C…
Johann Stamitz, Czech violinist and composer (died 1757)
Jacques François Joseph Saly, also known as Jacques Saly, French-born sculptor who worked in France, Italy and Malta. He is commonly associated with his time in Denmark he served a…
Jacques Saly, French sculptor and painter (died 1776)
Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier was a French natural scientist and contributor to the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers.
Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier, French botanist and physicist (died 1799)
The organisation now known as the Premier Grand Lodge of England was founded on 24 June 1717 as the Grand Lodge of London and Westminster. Originally concerned with the practice of…
The Premier Grand Lodge of England is founded in London, the first Masonic Grand Lodge in the world (now the United Gran
Prince Eugene Francis of Savoy-Carignano, better known as Prince Eugene, was a distinguished feldmarschall in the Army of the Holy Roman Empire and of the Austrian Habsburg dynasty…
An imperial coalition army under Prince Eugene of Savoy defeats an Ottoman army under Haji Halil Pasha, leading to the…
The Austro-Turkish War (1716–1718) was fought between the Habsburg monarchy and the Ottoman Empire. The 1699 Treaty of Karlowitz was not an acceptable permanent agreement for the O…
Austro-Turkish War of 1716–18: The month-long Siege of Belgrade ends with Prince Eugene of Savoy's Austrian troops…
Dom Peter III, nicknamed the Builder, was King of Portugal from 24 February 1777 to his death in 1786, by marriage to his niece Queen Dona Maria I.
Peter III, Portuguese king (died 1786)
Louis François de Bourbon, or Louis François I, Prince of Conti, was a French nobleman who became the Prince of Conti from 1727 to his death, succeeding his father, Louis Armand II…
Louis François, Prince of Conti (died 1776)
John Metcalf, known as Blind Jack of Knaresborough or Blind Jack Metcalf, was an English road builder, the first professional road builder to emerge during the Industrial Revolutio…
Blind Jack, English engineer (died 1810)