1710
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Events
- Enactment of the world's first copyright legislation, Britain's 'Act for the Encourage of Learning (short title)
Year in topic
Births
- January 4 - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, composer (d. 1736)
- February 15 - King Louis XV of France (d. 1774)
- April 15 - William Cullen, professor of medicine and co-founder, Glasgow Medical School (d. 1790)
- May 14 - King Adolf Frederick of Sweden (d. 1771)
- November 22 - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, (d. 1784)
- November 27 - Robert Lowth, Bishop of the Church of England (d. 1787)
Deaths
- September 19 - Ole Romer, Danish astronomer (b. 1644)