Decades: 1660s 1670s 1680s 1690s 1700s - 1710s - 1720s 1730s 1740s 1750s 1760s
Years: 1705 1706 1707 1708 1709 - 1710 - 1711 1712 1713 1714 1715
Events Enactment of the world's first copyright legislation, Britain's 'Act for the Encourage of Learning (short title) Year in topic 1710 in literature 1710 in science Births January 4 - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, composer (+ 1736) February 15 - King Louis XV of France (+ 1774) April 15 - William Cullen, professor of medicine and co-founder, Glasgow Medical School (+ 1790) May 14 - King Adolf Frederick of Sweden (+ 1771) November 22 - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, (+ 1784) November 27 - Robert Lowth, Bishop of the Church of England (+ 1787) Deaths
