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[[File:Battle of Sirhind (1710).png|250px|thumb|[[May 10]]: In India, Mughal Empire troops are defeated by Sikh rebels at the Battle of Sirhind]]  
[[File:Stenbocks getapojkar vid Hälsingborg 1710.jpg|thumb|250px|[[February 28]]: Sweden defeats an invasion from Denmark in the [[Battle of Helsingborg]].]]
[[File:Vendome-and-PhilipV.jpg|thumb|250px|[[December 11]]: Spanish forces defeat Habsburg invasion of Spain at [[Battle of Villaviciosa]]]]
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[[File:Senex, Price, and Maxwell North America 1710 UTA.jpg|thumb|250px|Map of North America in 1710]]
{{Year article header|1710}} In the [[Swedish calendar]] it was a [[common year starting on Saturday]], one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar.

== 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.

=== Date unknown ===
* 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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== Births ==
[[File:Hörner-Langebek.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Jakob Langebek]] born [[23 January]]]]
[[File:Louis XV ;Carle van Loo.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Louis XV]] born [[15 February]]]]
[[File:Klimó György.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[György Klimó]] born [[4 April]]]]
[[File:Peter Anton Verschaffelt.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Peter Anton von Verschaffelt]] born [[8 May]]]]
[[File:John Cruger (NYPL b13512822-422065) (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[John Cruger Jr.]] born [[18 July]]]]
<!--[[File:Luise Dorothea in Tracht Eremitenorden klein.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Princess Luise Dorothea of Saxe-Meiningen]] born [[10 August]]]] -->
[[File:William Heberden b1710.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[William Heberden]] born [[13 August]]]]
[[File:Abraham Trembley.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Abraham Trembley]] born [[3 September]]]]
[[File:Anne-Marie Du Boccage.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Anne-Marie du Boccage]] born [[22 October]]]]
[[File:Adam Gottlob Moltke.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Adam Gottlob Moltke]] born [[10 November]]]]
[[File:(Venice) Ritratto del Doge Paolo Renier (1779) - Lodovico Gallina.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Paolo Renier]] born [[21 November]]]]
[[File:Carlo Antonio Bertinazzi 1742.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Carlo Bertinazzi]] born [[2 December]]]]

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 3]] &ndash; [[Richard Gridley]], American Revolutionary soldier (d. [[1796]])
* [[January 4]]
** [[Margravine Sophie Christine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth]] (d. [[1739]])
** [[Giovanni Battista Pergolesi]], Italian composer (d. [[1736]])<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Baker |editor1-first=Christopher |title=Absolutism and the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1720: A Biographical Dictionary |date=2002 |publisher=Greenwood Press |location=Westport, Connecticut |isbn=978-0-313-30827-7 |page=297 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SDy-MtS9mvgC&pg=PA297 |chapter=Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista (1710-1736)}}</ref>
* [[January 5]] &ndash; [[Friedrich Wilhelm Riedt]], German flautist (d. [[1783]])
* [[January 16]] &ndash; [[Sir William Ashburnham, 4th Baronet]], Church of England priest and baronet (d. [[1797]])
* [[January 23]] &ndash; [[Jakob Langebek]], Danish historian (d. [[1775]])
* [[January 28]] &ndash; [[Jean-Martial Frédou]], French portrait painter (d. [[1795]])
* [[January 30]]
** [[Septimus Robinson]], British Army officer who became Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod (d. [[1765]])
** [[Raimondo di Sangro]], Italian nobleman (d. [[1771]])
* [[February 1]] &ndash; [[Konrad Ernst Ackermann]], German actor (d. [[1771]])
* [[February 12]] &ndash; [[John Affleck (politician)|John Affleck]], British Tory politician (d. [[1776]])
* [[February 15]] &ndash; King [[Louis XV]], Bourbon monarch who ruled as King of France and of Navarre 1715–1774 (d. [[1774]])
* [[February 21]] &ndash; [[Willem van Haren]], Dutch nobleman and poet (d. [[1768]])
* [[February 28]] &ndash; [[Peter Delmé (MP for Southampton)|Peter Delmé]], wealthy English merchant and landowner (d. [[1770]])
* [[March 3]] &ndash; [[Johann Sigismund Mörl]], German theologian (d. [[1791]])
* [[March 4]] &ndash; [[Aert Schouman]], painter from the Dutch Republic (d. [[1792]])
* [[March 7]] &ndash; [[Casto Innocenzio Ansaldi]], Italian professor (d. [[1780]])
* [[March 10]] &ndash; [[Christian Ditlev Reventlow (1710–1775)|Christian Ditlev Reventlow]], Danish Privy Councillor (d. [[1775]])
* [[March 15]] &ndash; [[George Forbes, 4th Earl of Granard]], Irish soldier and politician (d. [[1769]])
* [[March 18]] &ndash; [[Ezekiel Worthen]], New Hampshire native who participated in the American Revolutionary War (d. [[1793]])
* [[March 19]] &ndash; [[Otto Didrik Schack, 3rd Count of Schackenborg]], Danish nobleman and enfeoffed count (d. [[1741]])
* [[March 26]] &ndash; [[Louis Guillouet, comte d'Orvilliers]] (d. [[1792]])
* [[March 27]] &ndash; [[Joseph Abaco]], Italian violoncellist and composer (d. [[1805]])

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 2]] &ndash; [[Samuel White (Massachusetts politician)|Samuel White]], lawyer in the Province of Massachusetts Bay (d. [[1769]])
* [[April 4]]
** [[György Klimó]], Bishop of Pécs and founder of the Klimo Library and printing press (d. [[1777]])
** [[Edmund Lechmere (MP for Worcestershire)|Edmund Lechmere]], British politician (d. [[1805]])
* [[April 10]] &ndash; [[George Charles Dyhern]], Saxon general (d. [[1759]])
* [[April 12]] &ndash; [[Caffarelli (castrato)|Caffarelli]], Italian castrato and opera singer (d. [[1783]])
* [[April 13]] &ndash; [[Jonathan Carver]], colonial American military officer (d. [[1780]])
* [[April 15]]
** [[Marie-Anne de Cupis de Camargo]], French dancer (d. [[1770]])
** [[William Cullen]], Scottish physician and chemist (d. [[1790]])
* [[April 17]] &ndash; [[Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan]], British Freemason (d. [[1767]])
* [[April 18]] &ndash; [[Friedrich Bogislav von Tauentzien]], Prussian general during the wars of King Frederick the Great (d. [[1791]])
* [[April 20]] &ndash; [[Jean-Joseph Sue]], French surgeon and anatomist (d. [[1792]])
* [[April 23]] &ndash; [[John Tempest Sr.]], landowner and Member of Parliament (d. [[1776]])
* [[April 24]] &ndash; [[Louis-Philippe Mariauchau d'Esgly]], eighth bishop of the diocese of Quebec (d. [[1788]])
* [[April 25]] &ndash; [[James Ferguson (Scottish astronomer)|James Ferguson]], Scottish astronomer (d. [[1776]])
* [[April 26]] &ndash; [[Thomas Reid]], Scottish philosopher (d. [[1796]])
* [[April 30]] &ndash; [[Johann Kaspar Basselet von La Rosée]], Bavarian general (d. [[1795]])
* [[May 6]] &ndash; [[Richard Bland]], American planter and statesman from Virginia (d. [[1776]])
* [[May 8]]
** [[Charles Hope-Weir]], Scottish politician (d. [[1791]])
** [[Peter Anton von Verschaffelt]], Flemish sculptor and architect (d. [[1793]])
* [[May 10]] &ndash; [[François Bonamy]], French botanist and physician (d. [[1786]])
* [[May 14]] &ndash; [[Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden]] (d. [[1771]])
* [[May 16]]
** [[Joan Gideon Loten]], Governor of Zeylan, Fellow of the Royal Society (d. [[1789]])
** [[Lorenzo Peracino]], Italian painter active near Novara in northern Italy (d. [[1789]])
** [[William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot]], English politician (d. [[1782]])
* [[May 18]]
** [[Johann II Bernoulli]], youngest of the three sons of Johann Bernoulli (d. [[1790]])
** [[Vere Poulett, 3rd Earl Poulett]] (d. [[1788]])
** [[Charles Willing]], Philadelphia merchant (d. [[1754]])
* [[May 21]] &ndash; [[Thomas Thynne, 2nd Viscount Weymouth]] (d. [[1751]])
* [[May 23]] &ndash; [[François Gaspard Adam]], French rococo sculptor (d. [[1761]])
* [[June 6]] &ndash; Andrea Scacciati, Italian painter (b. [[1642]])
* [[June 10]] &ndash; [[James Short (mathematician)|James Short]], Scottish mathematician and optician (d. [[1768]])
* [[June 14]] &ndash; [[Peder Kofod Ancher]], Danish jurist (d. [[1788]])
* [[June 15]] &ndash; [[Robert Oliver (priest)|Robert Oliver]], priest (d. [[1784]])
* [[June 18]] &ndash; [[Klaas Annink]], notorious Dutch serial killer in Twente, Netherlands (d. [[1775]])

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 4]] &ndash; [[Thomas Hay, 9th Earl of Kinnoull]] (d. [[1787]])
* [[July 10]] &ndash; [[Robert O'Callaghan (politician, born 1710)|Robert O'Callaghan]], politician (d. [[1761]])
* [[July 11]] &ndash; [[Sir John Morgan, 4th Baronet]] (d. [[1767]])
* [[July 18]] &ndash; [[John Cruger Jr.]], speaker of the Province of New York assembly, Mayor of New York City (d. [[1791]])
* [[July 21]] &ndash; [[Paul Möhring]], German physician and scientist (d. [[1792]])
* [[July 23]] &ndash; [[Jonathan Belcher (jurist)|Jonathan Belcher]], British-American lawyer (d. [[1776]])
* [[July 26]] &ndash; [[John Lambton (British Army officer)|John Lambton]], senior officer in the British Army and MP (d. [[1794]])
* [[July 31]] &ndash; [[Jacob Houblon]], British landowner and Tory politician (d. [[1770]])
* [[August 6]] &ndash; [[Frances Jones (colonist)|Frances Jones]], colonist (d. [[1785]])
* [[August 10]] &ndash; [[Princess Luise Dorothea of Saxe-Meiningen]], member of German royalty (d. [[1767]])
* [[August 13]]
** [[Margrave Frederick of Brandenburg-Schwedt]], second son of Margrave Albert Frederick (d. [[1741]])
** [[William Heberden]], English physician (d. [[1801]])
** [[Andrés Fernández Pacheco, 10th Duke of Escalona]], Spanish aristocrat and academician (d. [[1746]])
* [[August 14]] &ndash; [[Corbyn Morris]], English official and economic writer (d. [[1779]])
* [[August 18]] &ndash; [[Landon Carter]], American planter from Lancaster County (d. [[1778]])
* [[August 19]] &ndash; [[Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont]] (d. [[1763]])
* [[August 20]] &ndash; [[Thomas Simpson]], British mathematician (d. [[1761]])
* [[August 22]] &ndash; [[Johann August Nahl]], German sculptor and plasterer (d. [[1781]])
* [[August 27]]
** [[Joseph Tiefenthaler]], Jesuit missionary, one of the earliest European geographers to write about India (d. [[1785]])
** [[Giuseppe Vasi]], Italian engraver and architect (d. [[1782]])
* [[August 28]] &ndash; [[Pierre Augustin Boissier de Sauvages]], French naturalist, researcher in provençal dialect and encyclopédist (d. [[1795]])
* [[September 3]] &ndash; [[Abraham Trembley]], Genevan naturalist (d. [[1784]])
* [[September 9]] &ndash; [[Friedrich Rudolf von Rothenburg]], lieutenant general (d. [[1751]])
* [[September 11]] &ndash; [[Louis Frederick of Saxe-Hildburghausen]], Prince, General Field Marshal in the Bavarian army (d. [[1759]])
* [[September 22]] &ndash; [[Georg Matthias Bose]], famous early experimenter in electrostatics (d. [[1761]])
* [[September 24]] &ndash; [[William Bull II]], landowner (d. [[1791]])
* [[September 25]]
** [[Augustin Ehrensvärd]], Swedish military officer (d. [[1772]])
** [[Charles-François Racot de Grandval]], French actor and playwright (d. [[1784]])
* [[September 29]]
** [[Johann Andreas Michael Nagel]], German Hebrew scholar and Orientalist (d. [[1788]])
** [[Pompilio Maria Pirrotti]], Italian Roman Catholic priest and a professed member of the Piarists (d. [[1766]])
* [[September 30]] &ndash; [[John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford]], British statesman (d. [[1771]])

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 3]] &ndash; [[Jean Robert Tronchin]], Attorney General, member of the State Council of Geneva (d. [[1793]])
* [[October 7]] &ndash; [[François-Josué de La Corne Dubreuil]], officer in the colonial regular troops of New France and (d. [[1759]])
* [[October 11]] &ndash; [[Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain]], French sculptor who tempered a neoclassical style with Rococo charm and softness (d. [[1795]])
* [[October 12]] &ndash; [[Jonathan Trumbull]], Governor of the Colony and the state of Connecticut (d. [[1785]])
* [[October 13]] &ndash; [[Alban Butler]], English Roman Catholic priest and hagiographer (d. [[1773]])
* [[October 16]] &ndash; [[András Hadik]], Austro-Hungarian general (d. [[1790]])
* [[October 19]] &ndash; [[Franz Karl Ludwig von Wied zu Neuwied]], lieutenant general in Frederick the Great's army (d. [[1765]])
* [[October 22]] &ndash; [[Anne-Marie du Boccage]], French writer (d. [[1802]])
* [[October 26]] &ndash; [[Lukrecija Bogašinović Budmani]], Serb-catholic poet (d. [[1784]])
* [[October 31]] &ndash; [[Ole Tidemand]], Norwegian theologian and priest (d. [[1778]])
* [[November 2]] &ndash; [[Andrea Negroni]], Italian Cardinal who was Cardinal-Deacon of the titular Church of Santi Vito (d. [[1789]])
* [[November 4]] &ndash; [[Charles-François Tarieu de La Naudière]], officer in the colonial regular troops and seigneur in Lower Canada (d. [[1776]])
* [[November 6]] &ndash; [[David McGregore]], Presbyterian minister and member of the Colonial America Christian Clergy (d. [[1777]])
* [[November 8]] &ndash; [[Sarah Fielding]], English author, sister of the novelist Henry Fielding (d. [[1768]])
* [[November 10]] &ndash; [[Adam Gottlob Moltke]], Danish statesman (d. [[1792]])
* [[November 13]] &ndash; [[Charles Simon Favart]], French playwright (d. [[1792]])
* [[November 19]]
** [[Johann Wilhelm Hoffmann]], German historian (d. [[1739]])
** [[Giovanni Andrea Lazzarini]], Italian painter (d. [[1801]])
* [[November 21]]
** [[Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky]], Prussian merchant with a successful trade in trinkets (d. [[1775]])
** [[Paolo Renier]], Venetian statesman (d. [[1789]])
* [[November 22]] &ndash; [[Wilhelm Friedemann Bach]], German composer (d. [[1784]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Wilhelm Friedemann Bach {{!}} German composer {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wilhelm-Friedemann-Bach |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=9 July 2023 |language=en |date=27 June 2023}}</ref>
* [[November 27]] &ndash; [[Robert Lowth]], English bishop and grammarian (d. [[1787]])
* [[November 28]] &ndash; [[Henry Hyde, Viscount Cornbury]] (d. [[1753]])
* [[December 1]] &ndash; [[Michele Marieschi]], Italian painter and engraver (d. [[1744]])
* [[December 2]] &ndash; [[Carlo Bertinazzi]], Italian actor and writer (d. [[1783]])
* [[December 5]] &ndash; [[Nicolò Porta]], Italian painter of the late-Baroque period (d. [[1784]])
* [[December 15]] &ndash; [[Francesco Zahra]], Maltese painter (d. [[1773]])
* [[December 24]] &ndash; [[Tibout Regters]], portrait painter from the Northern Netherlands (d. [[1768]])
* [[December 28]] &ndash; [[Henrik Teofilus Scheffer]], Swedish chemist (d. [[1759]])
* ''date unknown'' &ndash; [[Ahmad bin Said al-Busaidi]], first ruler of the [[Al Said]] Dynasty of [[Oman]] (d. [[1783]])

== Deaths ==
* [[January 4]] &ndash; [[Sir Richard Newdigate, 2nd Baronet]], English landowner (b. [[1644]])
* [[January 6]] &ndash; [[Thomas Fairfax, 5th Lord Fairfax of Cameron]], English politician (b. [[1657]])
* [[January 16]] &ndash; [[Emperor Higashiyama]] of Japan (b. [[1675]])
* [[January 28]] &ndash; [[Philip Verheyen]], Flemish physician (b. [[1648]])
* [[January 21]]
** [[John Ashburnham, 1st Baron Ashburnham]], English politician (b. [[1656]])
** [[Johann Georg Gichtel]], [[German mystic]] (b. [[1638]])
* [[January 30]]
** [[Madeleine Boullogne]], French painter (b. [[1646]])
** [[Sebastian Valfrè]], Italian Oratorian priest (b. [[1629]])
* [[February 16]] &ndash; [[Esprit Fléchier]], French writer and [[Bishop of Nîmes]] (b. [[1632]])
* [[February 17]] &ndash; [[George Bull]], English theologian and Bishop of St David's (b. [[1634]])
* [[February 20]] &ndash; [[Johan Vibe]], Norwegian noble (b. [[1637]])
* [[February 25]] &ndash; [[Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut]], French explorer (b. c. [[1639]])
* [[March 4]] &ndash; [[Louis III, Prince of Condé]] (b. [[1668]])
* [[March 5]] &ndash; [[John Holt (Lord Chief Justice)|John Holt]], English politician (b. [[1642]])
* [[March 14]] &ndash; [[Michel Bégon (1638–1710)|Michel Bégon]], French ancien regime official (b. [[1638]])
* [[March 28]] &ndash; [[Charles Fanshawe, 4th Viscount Fanshawe]], English politician (b. [[1643]])
* [[April 7]] &ndash; [[Sir Richard Bulkeley, 2nd Baronet]] of England (b. [[1660]])
* [[April 28]] &ndash; [[Thomas Betterton]], [[England|English]] actor (b. c. [[1635]])
* [[May 13]] &ndash; [[Henry, Duke of Saxe-Römhild]] (b. [[1650]])
* [[May 29]]
** [[John Dolben (politician)|John Dolben]], British politician (b. [[1662]])
** [[Henri Basnage de Beauval]], French historian, lexicographer (b. [[1657]])
* [[June 1]] &ndash; [[David Mitchell (Royal Navy officer)|David Mitchell]], British admiral (b. [[1642]])
* [[June 4]] &ndash; [[James Stuart, 1st Earl of Bute]] (b. [[1661]])
* [[June 7]] &ndash; [[Louise de La Vallière]], mistress of King Louis XIV of France (b. [[1644]])
* [[July 2]] &ndash; [[Domenico Freschi]], Italian opera composer, Catholic priest (b. [[1634]])
* [[July 12]] &ndash; [[Robert Treat]], American colonial leader (b. [[1624]])
* [[July 25]] &ndash; [[Gottfried Kirch]], German astronomer, first 'Astronomer Royal' in Berlin (b. [[1639]])
[[File:Ole Rømer (Coning painting).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Ole Rømer]]]]
* [[September 19]] &ndash; [[Ole Rømer]], Danish astronomer (b. [[1644]])
* [[September 22]] &ndash; [[Jacques-René de Brisay de Denonville, Marquis de Denonville]] (b. [[1637]])
* [[September 24]] &ndash; [[Charles Berkeley, 2nd Earl of Berkeley]], English diplomat (b. [[1649]])
* [[September 26]] &ndash; [[Sir Robert Kemp, 2nd Baronet]], English politician (b. [[1627]])
* [[October 19]] &ndash; [[Suzanne Henriette of Lorraine]], French noblewoman, Duchess of Mantua and Montferrat (b. [[1686]])
* [[November 3]] &ndash; [[Maria de Croll]], Swedish vocalist
* [[November 21]] &ndash; [[Bernardo Pasquini]], Italian composer of operas (b. [[1637]])
* [[December 15]] &ndash; [[Albert Anton, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt]] (b. [[1641]])
* [[December 18]] &ndash; [[Petrus Codde]], Dutch cleric, first Old Catholic bishop (b. [[1648]])
* ''date unknown'' &ndash; [[Anna Maria Thelott]], Swedish artist (b. [[1683]])

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