Events of 1710

January–June

• April 10 – The world's first copyright legislation, Britain's Statute of Anne, becomes effective.

• February 28 – Battle of Helsingborg: Fourteen thousand Danish invaders under Jørgen Rantzau are decisively defeated by an equally large Swedish army under Magnus Stenbock.

• June – Swiss and Palatine German Protestants 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, named for von Graffenried's hometown of Berne, Switzerland.

• June 8 – The 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.

Undated

• Estimation: Beijing becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Istanbul.

• St. Francis Abbey Brewery, Kilkenny, Ireland is founded by John Smithwick, the home of Smithwick's Ale.

Ongoing events

• Great Northern War (1700–1721)

• War of the Spanish Succession (1702–1713)

Births

• January 3 – Richard Gridley, American Revolutionary soldier (d. 1796)

• January 4 – Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer (d. 1736)

• February 15 – King Louis XV of France (d. 1774)

• April 15 – William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist (d. 1790)

• April 17 – Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan, British Freemason (d. 1767)

• April 25 – James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer (d. 1776)

• April 26 – Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher (d. 1796)

• April 30 – Johann Kaspar Basselet von La Rosée, Bavarian general (d. 1795)

• May 14 – King Adolf Frederick of Sweden (d. 1771)

• May 16 – William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician (d. 1782)

• June 10 – James Short, Scottish mathematician and optician (d. 1768)

• July 21 – Paul Möhring, German physician and scientist (d. 1792)

• August 20 – Thomas Simpson, British mathematician (d. 1761)

• September 3 – Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist (d. 1784)

• September 30 – John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, British statesman (d. 1771)

• October 12 – Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of the Colony and the state of Connecticut (d. 1785)

• October 16 – Andreas Hadik, Austro-Hungarian general (d. 1790)

• October 24 – Alban Butler, English Catholic priest and writer (d. 1773)

• November 8 – Sarah Fielding, English writer (d. 1768)

• November 10 – Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman (d. 1792)

• November 13 – Charles Simon Favart, French dramatist (d. 1792)

• November 22 – Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer (d. 1784)

• November 27 – Robert Lowth, English bishop and grammarian (d. 1787)

• December 2 – Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (d. 1783)

Deaths

• January 16 – Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (b. 1675)

• January 21 – Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (b. 1638)

• February 16 – Esprit Fléchier, French writer and Bishop of Nîmes (b. 1632)

• February 25 – Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut, French explorer (b. c. 1639)

• March 4 – Louis III, Prince of Condé (b. 1668)

• April 28 – Thomas Betterton, English actor (b. c. 1635)

• May 13 – Heinrich, Duke of Saxe-Römhild (b. 1650)

• June 1 – David Mitchell, British admiral (b. 1642)

• June 4 – James Stuart, 1st Earl of Bute

• June 7 – Louise de La Vallière, mistress of King Louis XIV of France (b. 1644)

• September 19 – Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (b. 1644)