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1710| 1689–1724 | UK [horse-racing] | The Byerley Turk, the Darley Arabian, and the Godolphin Arab, the horses from which all modern thoroughbreds are descended in the male line, are imported to England from the Middle East and north Africa. | | 1710 | UK [churches and temples] | The new St Paul's Cathedral, built to replace the Gothic cathedral destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666, is completed in London, England. It has been designed by the English architect Christopher Wren and is one of the greatest baroque buildings in Europe. Marlborough House in Westminster, London, England, designed by the English architect Christopher Wren, is also completed. | | 1710 | North America [food and drink] | The most popular nonalcoholic beverage in the North American colonies is chocolate. | | 1710 | Ireland [philosophy] | The Irish philosopher George Berkeley publishes a treatise concerning sense perceptions, suggesting all knowledge is acquired by direct experience – the foundation of scientific empiricism. | | 1710 | Spain [War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714)] | French forces defeat Austrian troops under Count Guido von Starhemberg at Villaviciosa in Spain, forcing Charles, Archduke of Austria (Charles III, King of Spain) to abandon Madrid and making Philip, Duke of Anjou (Philip V, King of Spain) Spain's first Bourbon king. | | 1710 | Ireland [thought and scholarship] | Irish philosopher and churchman George Berkeley publishes A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. His major philosophical work, it is a classic of idealism, the view that objects are representations in the mind. | | 1710 | Germany [thought and scholarship] | German philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz publishes Théodicée/Theodicy, an attempt to show that the existence of evil and the creation of the world by a loving God are compatible. His argument that (philosophically) this world is the ‘best of all possible worlds’ is ridiculed by Voltaire in Candide, which is published in 1759. | | 30 November 1710 | Ottoman Empire, Russia, Sweden [Ottoman–Russian Wars (1686–1739)] | The Ottoman Empire declares war on Russia at the instigation of King Charles XII of Sweden, Sultan Ahmed III's guest and new-found ally, who has recently been defeated by Tsar Peter I the Great at the battle of Poltava. |
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Alberti, Domenico
Aldrich, Henry
Almahide
Ambiela, Miguel
Archer, Thomas
Betterton, Thomas
Bolingbroke, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
Caffarelli
Camargo, Marie-Anne de Cupis de
Carver, Jonathan
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Festes vénitiennes, Les
Fielding, Sarah
Kirckman, Jacob
La Vallière, Louise Françoise de la Baume le Blanc
Leland, John
Meissen
Perti, Giacomo
Sacheverell, Henry
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| In 1710 Port Royal, a fortress of Acadia, was taken by the English. He made the friendship of Addison, who called him, perhaps rightly, 'the greatest genius of the age,' and of Steele, but he failed of his main purposes; and when in 1710 the Tories replaced the Whigs he accepted their solicitations and devoted his pen, already somewhat experienced in pamphleteering, to their service. It was about 1710 that the word encore was introduced at the operatic performances in the Haymarket, and very much objected to by plain- going Englishmen. |