Explore 171 historical events from 1710–1719.
John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, styled Lord Mount Stuart between 1713 and 1723, was a British Tory statesman who served as the Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1762 to 1763 unde…
John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Scottish politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (died 1792)
Meshech Weare was an American farmer, lawyer, and statesman from Seabrook and Hampton Falls, New Hampshire. He served as the first president of New Hampshire. Before 1784 the posit…
Meshech Weare, American farmer, lawyer, and politician, 1st Governor of New Hampshire (died 1786)
Lord John Philip Sackville was the second son of Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset. He was a keen cricketer who was closely connected with the sport in Kent.
John Sackville, English cricketer and politician (died 1765)
Jacques-Germain Soufflot was a French architect in the international circle that introduced neoclassicism. His most famous works are the Panthéon in Paris, built from 1755 onwards,…
Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect, designed the Panthéon (died 1780)
Luís António Verney was a Portuguese philosopher, theologian, and pedagogue. An estrangeirado, Verney is sometimes called the most important figure of the Portuguese Enlightenment.
Luís António Verney, Portuguese philosopher and pedagogue (died 1792)
Charles, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, reigned as Prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel from 1735 until his death.
Charles I, German duke and prince (died 1780)
David Hollatz was a German Lutheran theologian.
David Hollatz, Polish pastor and theologian (born 1648)
Thomas Sprat, FRS was an English churchman and writer, Bishop of Rochester from 1684.
Thomas Sprat, English bishop (born 1635)
Henry Compton was an Anglican clergyman who served as the Bishop of London from 1675 to 1713.
Henry Compton, English bishop (born 1632)
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.
Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff was a German-Danish statesman and a member of the Bernstorff noble family of Mecklenburg. He was the son of Joachim Engelke Freiherr von B…
Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff, Danish politician and diplomat (died 1772)
Benjamin Ingham was an English cleric who was the founder of the Moravian Church in England as well as his own Inghamite societies.
Benjamin Ingham, American missionary (died 1772)
Luc Urbain du Bouëxic, comte de Guichen was a French Navy officer who commanded the fleets that fought the Royal Navy at the Battle of Ushant and Battle of Martinique during the Am…
Luc Urbain de Bouëxic, comte de Guichen, French admiral (died 1790)
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)
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)
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)