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Magnus Stenbock leading his troops in Helsingborg in 1710[/caption]
In the year 1710, Danish invaders are decisively defeated by the Swedish army at the Battle of Helsingborg in Southern Sweden (Feb 28), the world’s first copyright legislation, Britain’s Statute of Anne, becomes effective (Apr 10), the Tuscarora nation in Carolina protest the seizure of their lands and enslavement of their people by the settlers there (Jun 8), the Great Northern War (1700-1721) goes on, Beijing becomes the largest city in the world - and all these fine people were born:
1710-0103 Richard Gridley* soldier/engineer/served in the American Revolutionary War - Boston, Massachusetts, British America (1796/86)
1710-0105 Friedrich Wilhelm Riedt* flautist/composer/ music theorist - Berlin (1783/73)
1710-0110
1710-0123 Jakob Langebek* historian/ linguist/lexicographer - Thy, Thisted, Denmark (1775/65)
1710-0128 Jean-Martial Frédou* portrait painter - Fontenay-Saint-Père, Kingdom of France (1795/85)
1710-0130 Septimus Robinson* army officer - England (1765/55)
1710-0201 Konrad Ernst Ackermann* actor - Schwerin, Holy Roman Empire (1771/61)
1710-0212 John Affleck* politician - England (1776/66)
1710-0215 Louis XV* King of France from the age of five - Palace of Versailles, Kingdom of France (1774/64)
1710-0228 Peter Delmé* merchant/ landowner - London, England (1770/60)
1710-0304 Aert Schouman* painter - Dordrecht, Dutch Republic (1792/82)
1710-0318 Ezekiel Worthen* soldier /“The Warrior of Kensington” - Amesbury, New Hampshire, British America (1793/c. 83) more
1710-0327 Joseph Abaco* Italian violoncellist/composer - Brussels, Spanish Netherlands (1805/95)
1710-0402 Samuel White* lawyer/ politician - Weymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony(1769/58)
1710-0412 Caffarelli* (b Gaetano Majorano) Italian castrato/opera singer - Bitonto (1783/72)
1710-0425 James Ferguson* astronomer - Rothiemay, Banffshire, Scotland (1776/66)
1710-0506 Richard Bland* planter/ lawyer/Founding Father - Orange County, Virginia, British America (1776/66)
1710-0508 Peter Anton von Verschaffelt* Flemish sculptor/architect - Ghent, Flanders, Spanish Netherlands (1793/83)
1710-0514 Adolf Frederick* King of Sweden - Gottorp, Schleswig, Holy Roman Empire (1771/60)
1710-0601
1710-0610 James Short* mathematician/ manufacturer of optical instruments - Edinburgh, Scotland (1768/57)
1710-0618 Klaas Annink* notorious Dutch murderer/suspected serial killer - Bentelo (1775/65)
1710-0627 Lorentz Johan Göös* Finnish colonel/ landowner/governor - Tenhola, Sweden-Finland (1774/63)
1710-0627 Jaakko Jaakonpoika Mylläri** father of Brita Jaakontytär Koukkari - Peräseinäjoki, Mylläri, Sweden-Finland (1780/70)
1710-0630
1710-0710 Robert O’Callaghan* Irish politician - Ireland (1761/50)
1710-0718 John Cruger Jr.* merchant/ Mayor of New York City - British America (1791/81)
1710-0721 Paul Möhring* German physician/botanist/ zoologist - Jever, GD of Anhalt-Zerbst, Holy Roman Empire (1792/82)
1710-0806 Frances Jones* colonist/mother of the first First Lady of the United States, Martha Washington - New Kent County, Virginia, British America (1785/74)
1710-0813 William Heberden* physician - London, England (1801/90)
1710-0820 Thomas Simpson* mathematician/inventor - Sutton Cheney, Leicestershire, England (1761/50)
1710-0903 Abraham Trembley* naturalist/credited by some as the “father of biology” - Geneva, Republic of Geneva (1784/73)
1710-0922 Georg Matthias Bose* early German electrical experimenter of the development of electrostatics - Leipzig (1761/50)
1710-0925 Augustin Ehrensvärd* military officer/architect - Fullerö, Västmanland, Swedish Empire (1772/62)
1710-1012 Jonathan Trumbull* politician/Governor of Connecticut - Lebanon, Connecticut Colony, British America (1785/74)
1710-1022 Anne-Marie du Boccage* writer/ poet/playwright - Rouen, Kingdom of France (1802/91)
1710-1031 Ole Tidemand* Norwegian theologian/priest - Christiania, Denmark-Norway (1778/67)
1710-1110 Adam Gottlob Moltke* Danish courtier/statesman/diplomat - Riesenhof, Mecklenburg (1792/81)
1710-1119 Giovanni Andrea Lazzarini* Italian painter/poet/art historian - Pesaro (1801/90)
1710-1122 Wilhelm Friedemann Bach* composer/performer/2nd child of JSB - Weimar (1784/73)
1710-1201 Michele Marieschi* painter/ engraver - Venice, Republic of Venice (1744/33)
1710-1202 Carlo Bertinazzi* Italian actor/author - Turin (1783/72)
1710-1210
1710-1215 Francesco Zahra* Maltese painter - Senglea, Malta (1773/62)
1710-1223 Otto Wilhelm De Geer* baron/privy council - Godegård, Swedish Empire (1769/58)
1710-1224 Tibout Regters* Dutch portrait painter - Dordrecht (1768/57)
1710-1228 Henrik Teofilus Scheffer* chemist (platinum) - Stockholm, Swedish Empire (1759/48)
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